Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 
ANALYSES OF BEETS GROWN WITH APPLICATION OF NITRATES. 
75 
Date of sampling. 
Sodic nitrate per acre. 
Yield tons per acre. .. . 
Sugar in beecs. 
Dry matter in fresh beets. . . . 
Crude ash in dry matter. 
Crude ash fresh beet. 
Pure ash in fresh beet. 
Sulfuric acid. 
Phosphoric acid . 
Chlorin . 
Sodium. 
Potassic oxid . 
Sodic oxid. 
Calcic oxid. 
Magnesic oxid. 
Ferric oxid. 
Aluminic oxid . 
Manganic oxid (br.) . 
Total nitrogen . 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer). ... 
Amnionic nitrogen . 
Amid nitrogen. 0.00930 
Amino nitrogen .. 
Nitric nitrogen . 
Injurious nitrogen in beet. 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar. . . . 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sug. 
Press Juii 
Total nitrogen. 
Albumin nitrogen . 
Peptone 
LXXII 
LXXIII 
LXXIV 
LXXV 
Field 1 
Field 1 
Field 2 
Field 2 
3 Nov. 
3 Nov. 
3 Nov. 
3 Nov. 
250 ibs. 
250 lbs. 
500 lbs. 
500 lbs. 
16.85 
16.85 
15.52 
15.52 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
15.70000 
16.50000 
15.30000 
15.80000 
21.30000 
22.40000 
21.40000 
21.60000 
3.57200 
3.33400 
4.03700 
4.75100 
0.76084 
0.74682 
0.86392 
1.02622 
0.51948 
0.72592 
0.02595 
0.03798 
0.03750 
0.06096 
0.02292 
0.03099 
0.01490 
0.02011 
0 20800 
0.30551 
0.06222 
0.11181 
0.04301 
0.04188 
0.09787 
0.10766 
0.00286 
0.00301 
0.00226 
0.00257 
0.00199 
0.00344 
0.14470 
0.14485 
0.18225 
0.20535 
0.06480 
0.07465 
0.07805 
0.08010 
0.00190 
0.00245 
0.00200 
0.00346 
0.00930 
0.00765 
0.01025 
0.01500 
0.05103 
0.04549 
0.04613 
0.02002 
0.00181 
0.00144 
0.01658 
0.01009 
0.06870 
0.06010 
0.09195 
0.10679 
2.12670 
3.20500 
0.43758 
0.36424 
0.60051 
0.68221 
; According 
to Ruemiiler. 
0.11890 
0.11905 
0.16856 
0.18690 
0.03750 
0.03750 
0.04270 
0.04270 
0.00275 
0.00400 
0.00035 
0.00375 
0.00185 
0.00190 
0.00480 
0.00290 
Carbon . 
Sand. 
Silicic acid .... 
Sulfuric acid . . . 
Fhosphoric acid 
Chlorine . 
Sodium. 
Carbonic acid . . 
Potassic acid . . 
Sodic oxid .... 
Calcic oxid 
Magnesic oxid . 
Ferric oxid 
Aluminic oxid . 
Manganic oxid . 
Loss. 
Crude 
0.621 
2.026 
1.804 
3.475 
5.021 
3.069 
AsU Analyses. 
LXXXIV 
Pure 
LXXXV 
.24.053 
27.852 
11.020 
5.759 
13.105 
0.383 
0.303 
0.266 
(1.936) 
4.996 
7.218 
4.412 
2.868 
40.042 
11.978 
8.279 
18.840 
0.550 
0.435 
0.382 
Crude 
0.345 
1.375 
1.678 
3.701 
5.940 
3.020 
Pure 
5.232 
8.397 
4.269 
2.776 
Sum. 100.693 
Oxygen equi. to chlorin. 0.693 
Total. 
100.000 
100.000 
24.178 
29.770 
13.440 
4.081 
10.491 
0.293 
0.250 
0.335 
(1.784) 
100.681 
0.681 
100.000 
42.083 
15.401 
5.769 
14.831 
0.411 
0.353 
0.474 
100.000 
