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The Colorado Experiment Station 
ANALYSES OF BEETS AND LEAVES,* SEASON 1911. 
CXXVI 
E R 
8 August 
None 
439.4 grams 
619.0 grams 
Variety. 
Date of sampling. 
Nitrate applied per acre to date. 
Average weight of beets. 
Average weight of leaves. 
Average weight of beets, trimmed. . 
Percent 
Sugar in beets. 9.90000 
Coefficient of purity. 75.10000 
Dry substance in beets. 15.48000 
Dry substance in leaves... 9.53000 
Total nitrogen in beets. 0.15576 
Total nitrogen in leaves. 0.33578 
Proteid nitrogen in beets (Stutzer). 0.06917 
Proteid nitrogen in leaves. 0.25634 
Ammonic nitrogen in beets. 0.00277 
Amid nitrogen in beets. 0.00568 
Amino nitrogen in beets. 0.01789 
Nitric nitrogen in beets. 0.02819 
Nitric nitrogen in leaves. 0.05461 
Press Juice of Beets According to Ruempler. 
Total nitrogen. 0.13852 
Albumin nitrogen. 0.04389 
Propetone nitrogen. 0.00000 
Peptone nitrogen. 0.00000 
CXXVII 
Z R 
8 August 
None 
441.0 grams 
745.5 grams 
Percent 
9.80000 
73.20000 
15.26000 
9.91000 
0.17617 
0.33792 
0.07022 
0.24665 
0.00277 
0.00568 
0.01789 
0.03643 
0.05724 
0.14027 
0.05335 
0.00025 
0.00150 
ANALYSES OF BEETS AND LEAVES, SEASON 1911. 
ANALYSES. 
Variety. 
Date of sampling. 18 
Nitrate applied per acre.... 
Average weight of beets. ... 
Average weight of leaves. . . 
Average weight of beets, trim’d 
Sugar in beets. 
Coefficient of purity. 74.20000 
Dry substance in beets. 
Dry substance in leaves.-... 
Total nitrogen in beets. 
Total nitrogen in leaves. ... 
Proteid nitrogen in beets... 
Proteid nitrogen in leaves. .. 
Ammonic nitrogen in beets. 
Amid nitrogen in beets. 
Amino nitrogen in beets. . . . 
Nitric nitrogen in beets. 
Nitric nitrogen in leaves. . . . 
PresH <1 
Total nitrogen. 
Albumin nitrogen. 
Propetone nitrogen . 
Peptone nitrogen . 
*By leaves we mean the blades and stems together and by beet the whole 
root including the crown, but they were trimmed, i. e., the crowns cut off, 
before they were analyzed. 
CXXVIII 
CXXIX 
cxxx 
cxxxi 
E R 
E R Check 
Z R 
Z R Check 
18 Aug. 
18 Aug. 
18 Aug. 
18 Aug. 
, 250 pounds 
None 
250 pounds None 
528.8 grams 482.0 grams 
459.6 grams 
455.2 grams 
786.4 grams 7 
18.2 grams 
713.2 grams 
670.9 grams 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
9.30000 
9.70000 
9.30000 
9.50000 
74.20000 
74.60000 
74.20000 
76.00000 
15.03000 
16.00000 
13.69000 
15.02000 
9.07000 
9.30000 
9.08000 
9.35000 
0.15312 
0.15378 
0.14850 
0.14058 
0.27522 
0.27258 
0.27060 
0.25674 
0.07656 
0.07551 
0.07932 
0.07997 
0.21991 
0.22097 
0.22720 
0.20673 
0.00264 
0.00303 
0.00198 
0.00211 
0.00607 
0.00581 
0.00594 
0.00568 
0.02580 
0.02841 
0.03178 
0.03625 
0.03272 
0.02998 
0.03086 
0.02357 
0.06125 
0.03256 
0.06239 
0.04360 
ce According 
to Ruempler. 
0.12384 
0.15297 
Lost 
0.12367 
0.05277 
0.05843 
0.05151 
0.05730 
0.00452 
0 
0.00578 
? 
0.00226 
0.00450 
0.00101 
0.00175 
