r 4° The Colorado Experiment Station 
ANALYSES OF BEETS DEFOLIATED 6 SEPT 
CLXXVII 
Variety. 
Date of sampling......'..”.’.."'/” ] 
Average weight of beets. 
Av. weight of beets, trimmed. 
E R* 
Sept. 
.625.3 grams 
.543.4 grams 
CLXXVIII 
E R 
8 Nov. 
791.2 grams 
701.0 grams 
HARVESTED s NOV. 1911. 
CLXXIX 
Z R 
1 Sept. 
510.3 grams 
469.4 grams 
Dry substance in beets.... 
Crude ash in dry substance 
Pure ash in dry substance. 
Pure ash in fresh beet. 
Sulfuric acid . 
Sodic oxid .... 
Calcte oxid ... 
Magnesic oxid 
Ferric oxid . . . 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer) 
Ammonic nitrogen. 
Amid nitrogen. 
Injurious ash per 100 of sugar. 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sug. 
Total nitrogen .... 
Albumin nitrogen . 
Propetone nitrogen 
Peptone nitrog'en .. 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
11.90000 
14.30000 
13.20000 
18.69000 
19.60000 
19.76000 
4.64900 
3.1)8000 
3.94200 
3.24960 
2.77100 
2.79500 
0.60735 
0.54440 
0.55235 
0.02358 
0.02414 
0.02341 
0.05425 
0.05380 
0.06435 
0.02314 
0.01933 
0.01413 
0.01484 
0.01254 
0.00917 
0.31460 
0.26493 
0.29742 
0.09825 
0.06062 
0.06676 
0.02456 
0.03603 
0.02140 
0.04813 
0.06775 
0.05010 
0.00329 
0.00178 
0.00301 
0.00145 
0.00126 
0.00162 
0.00104 
0.00193 
0.00098 
0.13794 
0.12408 
0.13068 
0.07317 
0.06731 
0.07418 
0.00251 
0.00105 
0.00251 
0.00634 
0.00387 
0.00568 
0.04150 
0.06267 
0.04244 
0.01925 
0.01367 
0.01670 
0.05592 
0.05185 
0.04831 
3.98650 
2.66820 
3.11290 
0.45922 
0.32658 
0.36591 
According to Rucmplcr. 
0.11480 
0.10178 
0.11639 
0.03772 
0.03639 
0.03742 
0.01464 
0.00356 
0.01156 
0.00444 
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Ash Analyses. 
Caroon . 
Crude 
Pure 
Crude Pure 
. None 
None 
Sand . 
. 1.279 
# 
1.095 
Silicic acid.... 
. 1.001 
0.857 
Sulfuric acid. .., 
2.714 
3.883 
3.158 
4.533 
Phosphoric acid 
. 6.244 
8.933 
6.879 
9.876 
Chlorin . 
2.663 
3.810 
2.472 
3.551 
Sodium. 
2.477 
2.309 
Carbonic acid. . 
. 26.275 
26.989 
Potassic oxid... 
36.207 
51.794 
33.875 
48.636 
Sodic oxid . 
13.640 
16.176 
9.880 
11.129 
Calcic oxid . 
2.827 
4.044 
4.608 
6.617 
Magnesic oxid. . 
5.539 
7.924 
8.663 
12.440 
Ferric oxid. 
0.379 
0.542 
0.227 
0.325 
Aluminic oxid.. 
0.167 
0.245 
0.161 
0.230 
Manganic oxid.. 
0.120 
0.172 
0.247 
0.354 
Loss . 
Sum. 
(1.546) 
(1.447) 
100.601 
100.558 
Oxygen equi. to 
chlorin . 
0.601 
0.558 
Total. 
100.000 100.000 
100.000 100.000 
CLXXXIV. 
Crude 
None 
0.808 
0.973 
3.005 
8.262 
1.814 
C 
Pure 
4.238 
11.651 
2.559 
1.660 
Crude 
None 
0.946 
0.784 
2.986 
7.647 
3.107 
CLXXX 
Z R 
8 Nov. 
701.3 grams 
590.0 grams 
Percent 
13.20000 
19.27000 
4.28000 
3.01500 
0.58100 
0.02462 
0.06307 
0.02563 
0.01666 
0.28042 
0.06624 
0.02808 
0.07262 
0.00158 
0.00092 
0.00117 
0.11286 
0.09029 
0.00118 
0.00343 
0.05071 
0.01584 
0.01796 
3.13320 
0.13606 
0.09155 
0.03389 
0.00273 
0.00548 
LXXXIIL 
Pure 
24.107 
38.181 
10.157 
2.747 
6.432 
0.386 
0.207 
0.126 
(3.104) 
100.409 
0.409 
4.238 
10.855 
4.410 
2.867 
53.845 
12.087 
3.874 
9.071 
0.545 
0.293 
0.177 
26.360 
34.001 
10.751 
3.405 
8.805 
0.191 
0.112 
0.143 
(1.463) 
100.701 
0.701 
48.264 
11.401 
4.833 
12.499 
0.271 
0.159 
0.203 
100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 
time of defoliation. _^ a 
mal development and harvested 8 Nov. 
Analvses VV v V C T° mposition ° f the beets at the 
_ and CLXXI represent the same with 
nor- 
