Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 
ANALYSES OF BEETS, ORDINARILY GOOD SOIL. 
Date of harvesting-. 
Yield per acre. 
Average weight of beets 
Sugar.. 
Dry substance. 
Soluble ash . 
Insoluble ash. 
Crude ash in dry substance. 
Crude ash in beet. 
Pure ash in beet. 
Sulfxiric acid. 
Phosphoric acid. 
Chlorin . 
Sodium . 
Potassic oxid. 
Sodic oxid. 
Calcic oxid... 
Magnesic oxid . 
Ferric oxid. 
Aluminic oxid. 
Manganic oxid. 
Total nitrogen . 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer). 
Ammonic nitrogen . 
Amid nitrogen .. 
Amino nitrogen . 
Nitric nitrogen. 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar. 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sugar.. 
XV. 
Sept. 23, 1910. 
10.09 tons 
568.0 grams 
Percent 
14.40000 
20.50000 
3.69100 
1.40700 
5.09800 
1.04509 
0.88724 
0.03030 
0.04147 
0.13544 
0.08800 
0.42640 
0.02557 
0.04150 
0.08492 
0.00409 
0.00324 
0.00475 
0.15630 
0.06600 
0.00277 
0.00563 
0.04125 
0.01104 
4.90010 
0.56875 
XVI. 
Oct. 11, 1910. 
7.0 tons 
368.24 grams 
Percent 
13.20000 
20.30000 
3.70100 
0.87000 
4.57100 
0.92790 
0.64629 
0.02889 
0.07342 
0.00484 
0.00314 
0.28551 
0.12858 
0.03579 
0.08122 
0.00217 
0.00070 
0.00202 
0.18636 
0.09510 
0.00060 
0.00640 
0.03711 
0.02138 
3.41640 
0.63840 
XVII. 
Oct. 11,1910 
440.2 grams 
Percent 
13.30000 
19.90000 
0.19810 
0.10030 
0.00280 
0.00797 
0.04154 
0.02067 
0.65436 
Press Juice According to Ruempler. 
Total nitrogen. not done not done 
Albumin nitrogen. 
Propetone nitrogen . 
Peptone nitrogen . 
not done 
Carbon . 
Sand . 
Silicic acid. 
Sulfuric acid . 
Phosphoric acid . 
Chlorin . 
Sodium. 
Carbonic acid . 
Potassic oxid . 
Sodic oxid. 
Calcic oxid . 
Magnesic oxid. 
Ferric oxid. 
Aluminic oxid . 
Manganic oxid . 
Loss . 
Sum . 
Oxygen equi. to chlorin. 
Total. 
Ash 
Analyses. 
XXIV. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.894 
1.763 
1.652 
2.472 
3.415 
3.383 
4.674 
11.042 
15.256 
9.918 
20.923 
34.785 
48.059 
11.701 
2.883 
3.520 
4.683 
6.928 
9.571 
0.334 
0.461 
0.264 
0.365 
0.387 
0.535 
(2.387) 
102.435 
2.435 
100.000 
100.000 
XXV. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.553 
1.792 
1.709 
3.108 
4.470 
7.895 
11.360 
0.521 
0.749 
0.487 
24.941 
30.707 
44.177 
14.285 
19.895 
3.850 
5.538 
8.736 
12.567 
0.255 
0.336 
0.075 
0.108 
0.218 
0.313 
(1.472) 
100.117 
0.117 
100.000 
100.000 
