Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 
ANALYSES BEETS GROWN 
Fertilizer per acre 1909 
NXXII. 
HOP 130 K 
200 N 
Fertilizer per acre 1910. 
Yield 1910 .’ 
Date of sampling 1 , 
Sugar in beet. 
Dry substance in fresh beet. . ] 
Crude ash in dry substance. . .. 
Crude ash in beet.’ 
Pure ash in beet. 
Sulfuric acid . 
Phosphoric acid . 
Chlorin . 
Sodium . 
Potassic oxid.. . . . . . . 
Sodic oxid. 
Calcic oxid . 
Magnesic oxid. 
Ferric oxid. 
Aluminic oxid . 
Manganic oxid. 
Total nitrogen . 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzfer) ..... 
Ammonic nitrogen. 
Amid nitrogen. 
Amino nitrogen . 
Nitric nitrogen. 
Injurious nitrogen in beet. 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar. 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sug. 
240P, 100N 
12.60 tons 
11 Oct. 
Percent 
12.40000 
18.80000 
6.38600 
1.20049 
0.95270 
0.02906 
0.06469 
0.17743 
0.11823 
0.43681 
0.04255 
0.07596 
0.00379 
0.00265 
0.00152 
0.15345 
0.07175 
0.00315 
0.00620 
0.03957 
0.01333 
0.07233 
6.14200 
0.58334 
WITH FERTILIZERS. 
XXXIII. 
20 tons manure 
HOP, 200N 
220P, 400N 
14.57 tons 
11 Oct. 
Percent 
13.60000 
21.60000 
5.66500 
1.22364 
0.93754 
0.04297 
0.09006 
0.13328 
0.08666 
0.43050 
0.02321 
0.03405 
0.08873 
0.00261 
0.00485 
0.00062 
0.23270 
0.08040 
0.00710 
0.01650 
0.02622 
0.00832 
0.12870 
5.26920 
0.94632 
XXXIV. 
XXXV. 
4 tons CaO 
4 tons CaO 
•20 tons manure 
250P 170K 
HOP, 130K, 200N 
200N 
220 P, 260K 250P,170K,200N 
11.9 tons 
11.59 tons 
11 Oct. 
11 Oct. 
Percent 
Percent 
14.70000 
13.70000 
22.00000 
20.10000 
5.25400 
6.32600 
1.15588 
1.25344 
0.91227 
0.93368 
0.04374 
0.03690 
0.08181 
0.04795 
0.14213 
0.14732 
0.09241 
0.09579 
0.41904 
0.42362 
0.01593 
0.04788 
0.03231 
0.04062 
0.07940 
0.08284 
0.00310 
0.00647 
0.00175 
0.00084 
0.00103 
0.00350 
0.17150 
0.17940 
0.08705 
0.07000 
0.00275 
0.00230 
0.00925 
0.00935 
0.03421 
0.04171 
0.00865 
0.01244 
0.07245 
0.09775 
4.85200 
5.48550 
0.62047 
0.71351 
XLII. 
Crude 
Pure 
Carbon . 
0.500 
Sand . 
0 582 
Silicic acid .... 
1.006 
Sulfuric acid . . 
2.421 
3.051 
Phosphoric acid 
5.389 
6.792 
Chlorin . 
14.780 
18.626 
Sodium. 
12.412* 
Carbonic acid... 
18.061 
Potassic oxid . . 
37.077 
45.853 
Sodic oxid. 
12.481 
Calcic oxid .... 
3.544 
4.466 
Magnesic oxid. . 
6.327 
7.974 
Ferric oxid .... 
0.316 
0.398 
Aluminic oxid.. 
0.221 
0.278 
Manganic oxid.. 
0.127 
0.160 
Loss . 
(0.503) 
Asli Analyses. 
XLIII. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.640 
0.747 
1.391 
3.512 
4.584 
7.360 
9.606 
10.892 
14.216 
9.243 
17.890 
35.182 
45.917 
12.437 
2.476 
2.783 
3.632 
7.252 
9.465 
0.213 
0.278 
0.396 
0.517 
0.051 
0.066 
(1.712) 
Sum. 103.335 
Oxygen equi. to 
chlorin . 3.335 
102.458 
2.458 
Total . 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 
XLIV. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.355 
0.727 
1.003 
3.748 
4.794 
7.078 
8.968 
12.296 
15.580 
10.130 
17.327 
36.252 
45.934 
12.117 
1.706 
2.795 
3.541 
6.869 
8.703 
0.268 
0.340 
0.151 
0.191 
0.089 
0.113 
(1.700) 
102.775 
2.775 
100.000 100.000 
XLV. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.509 
0.679 
1.507 
2.944 
3.952 
3.822 
5.131 
11.753 
15.779 
10.253 
20.572 
33.797 
45.374 
14.115 
5.128 
3.241 
4.351 
6.609 
8.874 
0.516 
0.693 
0.067 
0.090 
0.279 
0.375 
(2.243) 
• • • • • 
102.653 
2.653 
Includes 0.736 of potassium. 
100.000 100.000 
