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Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 
ANALYSES OF BEETS GROWN WITH APPLICATION OF NITRATES. 
LXXX 
LXXXI 
LXXXII 
LXXXIII 
Field 5 
Field 5 
Field 6 
Field 6 
Date of sampling - .. 
_ 3 Nov. 
3 Nov. 
3 Nov. 
3 Nov. 
Sodic nitrate per acre. 
_ 1250 lbs. 
1250 lbs. 
Yield, tons per acre.. 
_ '15.96 
15.96 
14.47 
14.47 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Sugar in beets.. 
_ 12.80000 
14.70000 
14.20000 
14.30000 
Dry matter in fresh beet.., 
_ 19.80000 
21.60000 
20.20000 
19.90000 
Crude ash in dry beet. 
_ 4.92800 
3.97400 
4.30200 
4.51700 
Crude ash in fresh beet. . . . 
_ 0.97574 
0.85837 
0.86900 
0.89888 
Pure ash in fresh beet. 
_ 0.68028 
0.58881 
0.63879 
Sulfuric acid . 
. . . . 0.03147 
0.03335 
0 03130 
Phosuhoric acid . 
. . . . 0.02434 
0.02208 
0 04634 
Chlorin .. 
. . . . / 0.04389 
0.01953 
0 04792 
Sodium. 
. . . . 0.02854 
0.01269 
0 03276 
Potassic oxid. 
_ 0.25473 
0.22820 
0.26374 
Sodic oxid . 
. . . . 0.15964 
0.12244 
0 08661 
Calcic oxid . 
. . . . 0.03838 
0.04353 
0 03533 
Magnesic oxid. 
. . . . 0.09282 
0.09773 
0 09053 
Ferric oxid. 
. . . . 0.00358 
0.00423 
0 00198 
Aluminie oxid. 
. . . . 0.00122 
0.00334 
0 00155 
Manganic oxid (br). 
_ 0.00166 
0.00169 
0.00082 
Total nitrogen . 
_ 0.25360 
0.19140 
0.21330 
0.20605 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer) . 
0.08475 
0.07980 
0.07950 
0.08070 
Amnionic nitrogen. 
_ 0.00366 
0.00315 
0.00245 
0.00290 
Amid nitrogen . 
_ 0.02246 
0.01726 
0.01410 
0.01495 
Amino nitrogen . 
_ 0.05241 
0.05837 
0.05110 
0.05231 
Nitric nitrogen. 
_ 6.04225 
0.00949 
0.00949 
0.01984 
Injurious nitrogen in beet. 
_ 0.14273 
0.09719 
0.11725 
0.10750 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar 
_ 4.04900 
3.51170 
3.10430 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 
sug. 1.11510 
0.66115 
0.82571 
0.71591 
Press 
Juice According to Ruempler. 
Total nitrogen . 
_ 0.23380 
0.17820 
0.18295 
0.16775 
Albumin nitrogen . 
_ 0.04795 
0.04005 
0.04070 
0.04410 
Propetone nitrogen . 
_ 0.01180 
0.01060 
0.00990 
0.00170 
Peptone nitrogen . 
0.00030 
0.00030 
0.00400 
Asli Analyses. 
LXXXVIII 
LXXXIX 
XC 
Crude 
Pure 
Crude 
Pure 
Crude 
Pure 
Carbon . 
0.540 
0.588 
0.701 
Sand . 
1.882 
3.418 
0.791 
Silicic acid . 
1.563 
1.460 
0.744 
Sulfuric acid. 
3.225 
4.626 
3.880 
5.656 
3.482 
4.899 
Phosphoric acid . 
2.495 
3.579 
2.572 
3.750 
5.155 
7.254 
Chlorin . 
4.498 
6.452 
2.275 
3.317 
5.332 
7.503 
Sodium . 
4.196 
2.156 
4.867 
Carbonic acid . 
26.052 
25.827 
23.310 
Potassic oxid . 
26.106 
37.445 
26.586 
38.756 
29.341 
41.288 
Sodic oxid . 
20.300 
23.467 
16.256 
20.794 
14.483 
13.820 
Calcic oxid . 
3.933 
5.641 
5.077 
7.401 
3.919 
5.515 
Magnesic oxid . 
9.513 
13.645 
11.386 
16.598 
10.072 
14.173 
Ferric oxid. 
0.367 
0.526 
0.492 
0.718 
0.220 
0.310 
Aluminie oxid. 
0.125 
0.179 
0.389 
0.567 
0.172 
0.242 
Manganic oxid (br >. 
0.170 
0.244 
0.197 
0.287 
0.092 
0.129 
Doss . 
(0.245) 
(0.110) 
(3.389) 
Sum. 
1 01.014 
100.513 
101.203 
Oxygen equi. to chlorin. 
1.014 
.513 
1.203 
Total. 
100.000 
100.000 
100.000 
100.000 
100.000 
100.000 
