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in the Valley during the past eight years. This was carried out on 
a sufficiently large scale to show what we had actually accomplished 
m this direction. The beets were treated in all respects just as they 
are in any factory, sliced, subjected to diffusion, a thin juice pro¬ 
duced, which was treated with milk of lime, carbonated, etc., and 
finally evaporated to a thick juice; but none of the samples were car¬ 
ried farther than this point except as will be given later. The dried 
cossettes and these thick juices were subjected to examination with 
the following results, which were kindly furnished me by Mr. W. H. 
Baird, at that time the General Superintendent of the American 
Beet Sugar Company. The analytical work was done by Dr. 
Potvliet. The designation of the fields is the same as in the preced¬ 
ing tables. 
ANALYSES OF BEETS USED IX EXPERIMENTAL RUN. 
DRIED COSSETTES. 
1 
250 
0.5628 
Field . 
Sodium nitrate appl’d, lbs. 
Sodic nitrate in cossettes. 
Sodic nitrate per 100 dry 
substance . 
Total nitrogen . 
Total nitrogen per 100 dry 
substance . 
Nitrate nitrogen in total 
nitrogen . 10.1000 
0.5739 
0.9163 
2 
500 
0.5203 
0.5239 
0.9346 
3 
750 
0.9005 
0.9126 
1.2617 
4 
1,000 
1.1483 
1.1544 
1.3673 
5 
1,250 
1.4595 
1.4797 
1.5968 
6 7 
None Bad L’d 
0.5719 2.4320 
0.5789 
0.9879 
2.4870 
1.9223 
0.9342 0.9412 1.2788 1.3746 1.6167 1.0001 1.9569 
9.5000 20.9000 
8.1000 11.8000 13.8000 15.0000 
Dry substance . 98.0800 99.3000 98.6700 99.4700 98.7700 98.7800 98.2300 
ANALYSES OF THICK JUICES PRODUCED. 
Field . 1 
Sodic nitrate applied, lbs. 250 
500 
34567 * 
750 1,000 1,250 None Bad L’d 
Actual D. S. 59.1500 59.9100 46.5000 48.5100 51.6000 50.8700 46.5800 
Sodium nitrate. 0.3176 0.2888 0.4927 
NaNC> 3 per 100 D. S. 0.5369 0.4720 1.0595 
NaNO, per 100 sugar. 0.6107 0.5346 1.2226 
Total nitrogen. 0.3902 0.3517 0.4083 
Nitrogen in 100 D. S. 0.6599 0.5870 0.8780 
Nitrogen in 100 sugar. . . . 0.7506 0.6648 1.0131 
0.6422 
1.3239 
1.5327 
0.4472 
0.9219 
1.0687 
0.7909 
1.5327 
1.7733 
0.5004 
0.9699 
1.1219 
0.4510 
0.8866 
1.0044 
0.3620 
0.7116 
0.8062 
2.2170 
4.7590 
6.8420 
0.8770 
1.8828 
2.7068 
Percent N. reduced. 29.3000 37.6000 31.3000 32.9000 40.0000 28.8000 29.3000 
Nitrate N. in total N. 
13.4000 13.2000 19.9000 23.6000 26.0000 20.5000 34.2000 
Sugar, per 100 D. S. 87.9100 88.2900 86.6600 86.3700 86.4300' 88.2600 69.5600 
These thick juices were further examined by us with the fol¬ 
lowing results 
Field . 
1.29900 
0.35235 
0.00613 
Specific gravity .... 
Total nitrogen 
Amnionic nitrogen. 
Amid nitrogen. 0.00817 
Amino nitrogen .. 0.17814 
Nitric nitrogen .... 0.06034 0.05085 
1.28900 
0.36885 
0.00690 
0.00765 
1.21800 
0.37710 
0.00735 
0,01105 
0.20386 
0.09302 
4 
1.22900 
0.43440 
0.00760 
0.01190 
0.21560 
0.11210 
1.24200 
0.41565 
0.00813 
0.01498 
0.19483 
0.13430 
6 
1.24200 
0.33427 
0.00605 
0.00965 
0.28616 
0.08289 
7 
1.25100 
0.99710 
0.03010 
0.04870 
0.49313 
The technical results agree very well with those obtained by the 
analysis of our field samples. Field No. 6 was intended to be a 
check field but as elsewhere stated it failed us. The technical re- 
*These beets were taken from the very bad portion of the field and cor¬ 
respond to the section of the field designated by the number 4, see page 99. 
