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The Colorado Experiment Station 
ANALYSES OF BEETS, ORDINARILY GOOD SOIL. 
XI. XII. 
Date of harvesting. Sept. 23, 1910. 
Average weight of beets.. 
XIII. XIV. 
Oct. 12, 1911 
Dry substance. 
Soluble ash. 
Insoluble ash. 
Crude ash in dry substance. 
Crude ash in beet. 
Pure ash in beet. 
Sulfuric acid. 
Phosphoric acid . 
Potassic oxid. 
Sodic oxid. 
Calcic oxid . 
Magnesic oxid . . . •. 
Ferric oxid. 
Aluminic oxid . 
Magnanic oxid . 
Total nitrogen . 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer). 
Ammonic nitrogen. 
Amid nitrogen. 
Amino nitrogen . 
Nitric nitrogen- ; . 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar. . . . 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sug. 
Press Jui( 
Total nitrogen. 
Albumin nitrogen. 
Propetone nitrogen . 
Peptone nitrogen. 
673.1 grams 
788.4 grams 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
14.20000 
12.40000 
15.80000 
15.30000 
20.20000 
19.20000 
23.05400 
23.07000 
3.25800 
2.21250 
2.29660 
0.92200 
1.18750 
1.08700 
4.18000 
3.40000 
3.38360 
0.84436 
0.78384 
0.78060 
0.65529 
0.55421 
0.53066 
0.02460 
0.02482 
0.02281 
0.05786 
0.06693 
0.05260 
0.09597 
0.01129 
0.01302 
0.02994 
a a r: k A Q 
0.00734 
0.00846 
u.uoouy 
0.29559 
0.28105 
0.27639 
0.05057 
0.05235 
0.02339 
0.03131 
0.03569 
0.05749 
0.07010 
0.06355 
0.00337 
0.00817 
0.00343 
0.00108 
0.00042 
0.00263 
0.00143 
U u U JL 
0.12530 
0.13760 
0.14388 
0.14124 
0.06660 
0.06830 
0.07524 
0.07154 
0.00200 
0.00230 
0.002'24 
0.00226 
0.00350 
0.00630 
0.00554 
0.00564 
0.02575 
0.04711 
0.03817 
0.04506 
0.00358 
0.00786 
0.00870 
0.00503 
3.52950 
2.37390 
2.43820 
0.37440 
0.48953 
0.38529 
0.40393 
! According 
to Ruempler. 
0.12665 
0.11869 
0.04918 
0.04772 
0.00245 
0.00564 
0.00685 
0.00537 
Crude 
Carbon. none 
Sand. 1.391 
Silicic acid . 0.217 
Sulfuric acid . 2.912 
Phosphoric acid . 6.850 
Chlorin . 11.359 
Sodium. 
Potassium. 
Carbonic acid . 19.821 
Potassic oxid. 42.852 
Sodic oxid. 4.7 < 6 
Calcic oxid . 3.83 2 
Magnesic oxid. 6.803 
Ferric oxid. 0.410 
Aluminic oxid. 0.128 
Manganic oxid. 0.238 
AsU Analyses 
XXI. 
Pure 
XXII. 
XXIII. 
3.754 
8.830 
14.641 
4.569 
8.407 
Curde 
none 
1.568 
0.605 
3.166 
8.537 
1.440 
Pure 
4.479 
12.076 
2.037 
1.324 
Crude 
none 
1.429 
1.164 
2.939 
6.775 
1.677 
45.109 
4.928 
8.773 
0.517 
0.165 
0.307 
I.OSS 
(0.969) 
Sum . 102.561 
Oxygen equi. to chlorin 2.561 
24.052 
35.851 
8.136 
3.994 
8.941 
1.042 
0.054 
0.283 
(2.656) 
100.325 
.325 
50.712 
9.124 
5.650 
12.648 
1.474 
0.076 
0.400 
26.268 
35.601 
8.210 
4.597 
8.186 
0.421 
0.331 
Pure 
4.299 
9.911 
2.453 
1.595 
52.080 
9.863 
6.725 
11.975 
0.615 
0.484 
(2.780) 
100.378 
.378 
T 
otal . 100.000 100.000 
100.000 100.009 100.000 100.000 
