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The; Colorado Experiment Station 
ANALYSES 
OF BEETS, SAMPLES 
TAKEN 3 
2 OCT. 1911. 
CLX 
CLXI 
CLXII 
CLXIII 
Variety . 
E R E 
R Check 
Z R 
Z R Check 
Nitrate applied per acre. 
750 pounds 
None 
750 pounds 
None 
Average weight of beets.1017.5 grams 894.6 grams 
801.7 grams 752.2 grams 
Av. weight of beets trimmed. . . 
834.8 grams 768.6 grams 
672.7 grams 
> 617.5 grams 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Sugar in beets. . 
14.40000 15*30000 
14.30000 
15.80000 
Dry substance in 
beets 
20.87000 23.07000 
20.04000 
23.05000 
Crude ash in dry 
substance.... 
4.01100 
3.38360 
3.95300 
3.40000 
Pure ash in dry substance. 
2.82460 
2.31000 
2.67600 
2.40400 
Pure ash in fresh beet. 
0.58950 
0.53297 
0.53631 
0.55657 
Sulfuric acid .. . 
0.02494 
0.02291 
0.02189 
0.02493 
Phosphoric acid . 
0.04710 
0.05283 
0.05457 
0.06721 
Chlorin. 
0.01913 
0.01307 
0.00896 
0.01133 
Sodium. 
0.01427 
0.00850 
0.00582 
0.00737 
Potassic oxid . . . 
0.27855 
0.27127 
0.27988 
0.28225 
Sodic oxid. 
0.10851 
0.05256 
0.07237 
0.05078 
Calcic oxid. 
0.02887 
0.03854 
0.03106 
0.03148 
Magnesic oxid . . 
0.05674 
0.06383 
0.04745 
0.07038 
Ferric oxid. 
0.00458 
0.00328 
0.00610 
0.00820 
Aluminic oxid . . 
0.00169 
0.00259 
0.00211 
0.00042 
Manganic oxid . . 
0.00237 
0.00000 
0.00170 
0.00293 
Total nitrogen . . 
0.16896 
0.14124 
0.16368 
0.14388 
Proteid nitrogen 
(Stutzer). 
0.08368 
0.07154 
0.08104 
0.07497 
Ammonic nitrogen . . . . 
0.00211 
0.00266 
0.00066 
0.00224 
Amid nitrogen . . 
0.00660 
0.00565 
0.00778 
0.00554 
Amino nitrogen . 
0.03764 
0.04505 
0.03818 
0.03266 
Nitric nitrogen . , 
0.01685 
0.00503 
0.01885 
0.00870 
Injurious nitrogen in beets. 
0.07657 
0.06139 
0.07420 
0.06113 
Injurious ash per 
100 sugar. . . . 
3.09240 
2.40720 
2.71970 
2.38390 
Injurious nitrogen per 
100 sug. 
0.53174 
0.40125 
0.51887 
0.38690 
Press Juice According- to Ruempler. 
Total nitrogen . . 
0;i4622 
0.11869 
0.15074 
0.11030 
Albumin nitrogen . . . . 
0.04796 
0.04429 
0.04968 
0.04576 
Propetone nitrog 
Peptone nitrogen 
en . . . 
0.00319 
0.00514 
0.00087 
0.00413 
0.00296 
0.00245 
0.0065& 
0.01906 
Ash Analyses. 
CLXIV 
CLXV 
CLX VI 
CLXVII 
Crude Pure 
Crude Pure 
Crude 
Pure Crude 
! Pure- 
Carbon . 
None 
None . 
None 
. None 
Sand . 
1.831 
1.429 . 
1.735 
1.568 
Silicic acid . 
1.510 
1.164 . 
1.308 
0.605 
Sulfuric acid .. . 
2.979 
4.230 
2.939 4.299 
2.758 
4.081 
3.166 
4.479 
Phosphoric acid 
5.627 
7.990 
6.775 9.912 
7.428 
10.903 
8.537 
12.076 
Chlorin. 
2.623 
3.725 
1.677 2.453 
1.129 
1.671 
1.440 
2.037 
Sodium. 
2.423 
. 1.595 
1.086 
1.324 
Carbonic acid.. . 
26.237 
26.268 . 
26.174 
. 24.052 
Potassic oxid . . 
33.276 
47.252 
35.601 52.082 
35.264 
52.186 35.851 
50.712 
Sodic oxid. 
15.248 
18.391 
8.201 9.864 
10.107 
13.494 
8.136 
9.124 
Calcic oxid . 
3.449 
4.897 
4.597 6.725 
3.914 
5.792 
3.994 
• 5.650 
Magnesic, oxid. . 
6.780 
9.626 
8.168 11.976 
5.979 
8.848 
8.941 
12.648 
Ferric oxid. 
0.547 
0.777 
0.421 0.615 
0.769 
1.138 
1.042 
1.474 
Aluminic oxid.. 
0.202 
0.287 
0.331 0.484 
0.266 
0.394 
0.054 
0.076 
Manganic oxid.. 
0.883 
0.402 
0.214 
0.317 
0.238 
0.400 
Loss . 
(2.780) . 
(3.210) 
. ( 
2.656) . 
Sum.100.592 
100.378 . .. . 
100.255 
. 100.325 
Oxygen eoui. to 
chlorin . 
0.592 
0.378 . 
0.255 
0.325 
Total.100.000 
100.000 
100.000 100.000 
100.000 
100.000 100.000 
100.000- 
Total 
