Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 99 
BEETS GROWN ON BAD LAND. 
Sampled 3 Nov. 1910. Check Plot. 
C 
Cl 
CII 
CIII 
Section. 
1 
2 
3 
4 
Average weight of beets. 
78S.1 grams 603.8 grams 
569.8 grams 663.4 gr. 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Sugar in beets.... 
13.20000 
11.30000 
12.10000 
8.60000 
Dry substance in beets. . 
21.00000 
17.60000 
18.90000 
16.50000 
Crude ash in dry substance. 
5.99100 
6.79600 
7.66700 
10.14100 
Crude ash in fresh beets. 
1.25811 
1.19061 
1.44906 
1.67326 
Pure ash in fresh 
beet... 
0.94227 
0.89514 
1.12218 
1.32875 
Sulfuric acid ..., 
0.03227 
0.02945 
0.04150 
0.04483 
Phosphoric acid . 
0.03875 
0.02007 
0.03109 
0.03453 
Chlorin . 
0.15188 
0.16698 
0.23134 
0.30396 
Sodium. 
0.09876 
0.11110 
0.15042 
0.19741 
Potassic oxid . .. 
0.42267 
0.35496 
0.43686 
0.51664 
Sodic oxid. 
0.06511 
0.09887 
0.09923 
0.09159 
Calcic oxid . 
0.03616 
0.03159 
0.03537 
0.03485 
Magnesic oxid .. 
0.08958 
0.07253 
0.08845 
0.09041 
Ferric oxid. 
0.00310 
0.00287 
0.00224 
0.00334 
Aluminic oxid . . . 
0.00151 
0.00081 
0.00131 
0.00691 
Manganic oxid . . 
0.00250 
0.00154 
0.00437 
0.00478 
Total nitrogen . . 
0.24930 
0.15995* 
0.23345 
0.34510 
Proteid nitrogen 
(Stutzer). 
0.08645 
0.06740 
0.08845 
0.12389 
Ammonic nitrogen. 
0.00545 
0.00200 
0.00350 
0.00520 
Amid nitrogen .. 
0.02160 
0.00690 
0.01470 
0.03985 
Amino nitrogen . 
0.03514 
0.03935 
0.03470 
0.03507 
Nitric nitrogen . 
0.01936 
0.03249 
0.05310 
0.08337 
Injurious nitrogen in beets.... 
0.13580 
0.08365 
0.12680 
0.17616 
Injurious ash per 
100 of 
sugar. 
5.62920 
6.73790 
7.92850 
13.43300 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sug. 
1.02880 
0.73900 
1.04790 
2.04840 
Press Juice According to Ruempler. 
Total nitrogenf . 
0.19100 
0.16450 
0.23335 
0.29800 
Albumin nitrogen . 
0.04290 
0.04015 
0.04370 
0.04255 
Propetone nitrogen ... . 
0.00590 
0.00435 
0.00760 
0.00250 
Peptone nitrogen. 
0.00542 
0.00670 
0.00650 
0.00430 
Ash Analyses 
CXIV 
CXV CXVI 
CXVII 
Crude 
Pure 
Crude 
Pure Crude 
Pure Crude Pure 
Tra fp 
Trace 
. 0.309 
Trace . 
Sand . 
0.97S 
0.976 
. 0.412 
0.874 . 
Silicic acid. 
0.872 
1.196 
. 1.230 
1.169 . 
Sulfuric acid ... 
2.565 
3.425 
2.462 
3.289 2.864 
3.698 
2.609 3.374 
Phosphoric acid 
3.080 
4.112 
1.717 
2.294 2.140 
2.763 
2.010 2.599 
Chlorin . 
12.072 
16.119 
14.286 
19.089 15.966 
20.617 17.695 22.875 
Sodium. 
10.481 
12.412 . 
13.405 
. 14.875 
Carbonic acid... 
20.875 
21.806 
. 19.908 
. 19.064 . 
Potassic oxid .. 
33.595 
44.856 
29.677 
39.655 30.149 
38.932 30.077 38.882 
Sodic oxid. 
15.747 
6.909 
20.774 
11.045 20.835 
8.843 20.831 6.893 
Calcic oxid. 
2.874 
3.837 
2.641 
3.529 2.441 
3.152 
2.029 2.623 
Magnesic oxid . 
7.120 
9.507 
6.064 
8.103 6.104 
7.882 
5.263 6.804 
Ferric oxid .... 
0.246 
0.328 
0.240 
0.321 0.155 
0.200 
0.194 0.251 
Aluminic oxid .. 
0.120 
0.160 
0.068 
0.091 0.091 
0.118 
0.402 0.520 
Manganic oxid.. 
0.199 
0.266 
0.129 
0.172 0.302 
0.390 
0.237 0.306 
Doss . 
(2.379) 
(1.183) 
. (0.697) 
(1.539) . 
a,,TV! 109 799 
103.219 
. 103.603 
. 103.993 . 
Ogygen equi. to 
chlorin . 
2.722 
3.219 
. 3.603 
3.993 . 
Total 
100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 
*The nitrogen is remarkably low, but the duplicate determinations agree 
within C.0029 percent and while the nitrogen in the juice of the siloed sample 
