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the samples. The same samples were used for the estimation of the 
sugar, the dry matter, the fodder analysis, and for the work on the 
ash. For instance, the sample of Kleinwanzlebener, taken on Octo- 
ber 13, was taken large enough to furnish material for the differ- 
ent determinations. The data obtained gives a complete history of 
the plant’s development. I may state that 1,200 pounds of beets, 
and nearly as many tops, were used during the course of this in- 
vestigation, the object being to obtain results which would be repre- 
sentative. 
The plan was to study each of the varieties planted, but I have 
been compelled to confine the study to the Kleinwanzlebener. I 
have taken two as comparative standards, the Kleinwanzlebener and 
Vilmorin. I gave up my original plan the more willingly, as the 
examination of the one series shows so great a uniformity in compo- 
sition, that there is no evident object to be gained which is nearly 
commensurate to the work involved. I give the direct results of the 
analyses, believing that they convey a sufficiently clear idea of the 
composition of the ash to the general reader, while the chemist, or 
other person, who wishes to reduce the terms to another basis, can 
easily do so. 
The following tables have been grouped together so as to pre- 
sent the condition, and the effect of the variety of soil, without 
further explanation. In the first table I have given the analyses of 
the ashes which I assumed to be representative of good soils, to 
which I have added an analysis of the ash of the marc, from Klein- 
wanzlebener beets, grown on the Farm plot, and corresponding to 
the analysis given in the first column: 
Kleinwanzle- 
bener. 
Kleinwanzle- 
bener. 
Vilmorin. 
Marc. 
Sugar Content in Beets 
12.32 per cent. 
17.25 per cent 
13.02 per cent. 
12.90 per cent. 
Where Grown 
Farm Plot. 
New Mexico. 
Farm Plot. 
Farm Plot. 
Carbon 
None. 
None. 
Trace. 
None. 
Sand 
0.699 
1.212 
0.931 
15.671 
Silica 
1.196 
1.506 
1.264 
4.787 
Sulphuric Acid 
3.481 
2.777 
2.878 
1.622 
Phosphoric Acid 
8.607 
3.336 
6.088 
3.283 
Carbonic Acid 
20.214 
18.213 
19.177 
23.807 
Chlorin 
5.686 
12.500 
10.887 
0.155 
Potassic Oxid 
32.334 
39.639 
40.065 
14.802 
Sodic Oxid 
17.888 
9.940 
11.161 
3.711 
Calcic Oxid 
3.257 
3.458 
3.409 
15.790 
Magnesic Oxid 
6.065 
7.024 
5.264 
9.768 
Ferric Oxid 
0.286 
0.468 
0.414 
1.300 
Aluminic Oxid 
0.268 
0.232 
0.774 
0.848 
Manganic Oxid (brown) 
0 298 
0.361 
0.186 
0.364 
Loss on Ignition 
1 272 
2.073 
14.126) 
Sum 
101.544 
102.739 
1 102.498 
100.034 
Oxygen equivalent to Chlorin — 
1.281 
2.817 
1 2.441 
0.034 
Total 
100.263 
99.922 
100.0.57 
100.000 
