6o 
The Colorado Experiment Station 
ANALYSES BEETS GROWN WITH FERTILIZERS. 
XXVIII. XXIX. 
XXX. 
XXXI. 
20 tons 
250 P,170 K, 
110 P. 
Fertilizer per acre 1909 
CaC0 3 
250 P, 170 K 
100 N 
130 K 
Fertilizer per acre 1910 
None 
800 K 
400 P 160 K. 100 N 
Yield 1910 . 
11.3 tons 10.11 tons 
10.86 tons 11.70 tons 
Date of sampling-, 
11 Oct. 
11 Oct. 
11 Oct. 
11 Oct. 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Sugar in beet. 
14.60000 
14.50000 
14.10000 
14.10000 
Dry substance in fresh 
beets... 
20.90000 
21.30000 
19.70000 
20.60000 
Crude ash in dry substance... . 
5.00900 
4.96800 
5.62600 
6.49700 
Crude ash in beet. 
1.04688 
1.05718 
1.10932 
1.33838 
Pure ash in beet. 
0.78047 
0.81278 
0.81556 
1.05870 
Sulfuric acid . 
0.02771 
0.03257 
0.03055 
0.05118 
Phosphoric acid . 
0.03477 
0.06122 
0.04848 
0.10615 
Chlorin . 
0.12746 
0.14657 
0.12489 
0.24613 
Sodium . 
0.08288 
0.09520 
0.08114 
0.16004 
Potassic oxid. 
0.37996 
0.34494 
0.39215 
0.54874 
Sodic oxid. 
0.00677 
0.02517 
0.01845 
0.07745 
Calcic oxid . 
0.03812 
0.02822 
0.03237 
0.04873 
Magnesic oxid. 
0.07073 
0.07202 
0.07642 
0.09066 
Ferric oxid. 
0.00489 
0.00392 
0.00491 
0.00286 
Aluminic oxid . 
0.00309 
0.00073 
0.00291 
0.00445 
Manganic oxid . 
0.00410 
0.00213 
0.00323 
0.00203 
Total nitrogen. 
0.12895 
0.12320 
0.10875f 
0.21900 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer). 
0.07175 
0.06660 
0.06250 
0.07495 
Ammonic nitrogen . . . . 
0.00100 
0.00145 
0.00560 
0.00315 
Amid nitrogen. 
0.00215 
0.00320 
0.00305 
0.00620 
Amino nitrogen . 
0.03700 
0.03621 
0.04071 
0.03957 
Nitric nitrogen . 
0.01034 
0.00250 
0.00987 
0.01333 
Injurious nitrogen in beet. 
0.05405 
0.05195 
0.03760 
0.13470 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar. . . . 
4.27940 
4.44450 
4.59000 
7.68430 
Injurious nitrogen per 
100 sug. 
0.37020 
0.35827 
0.27288 
0.95531 
Asli Analyses. 
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XXXVIII. 
XXXIX. XL. XLI. 
Crude 
Pure 
Crude 
Pure Crude 
Pure Crude Pure 
Carbon . 0.809 
1.4*2 
1 295 
0 490 
Sand . 1.041 
0.794 
. 1.612 
. 0.371 
Silicic acid .... 1.419 
1.208 
. 1.935 
. 0.630 
Sulfuric acid . . 2.647 
3.551 
3.081 
4.008 2.754 
3.755 3.025 
3.824 
Phosphoric acid 3.321 
4.455 
5.791 
7.533 4.370 
5.944 6.273 
7.931 
Chlorin. 12.175 
16.331 
13.864 18.036 11.258 
15.313 14.546 
18.390 
Sodium . 
10.619 
. 11.714 . 
9.948 . 
11.958 
Carbonic acid . . 19.678 
18.117 
. 18.865 
. 16.981 
Potassic oxid... 36.294 
48.683 
32.628 42.445 35.350 
48.084 32.429 
40.999 
Sodic oxid . 11.310 
0.868 
14.525 
3.097 11.524 
2.262 17.318 
5.786 
Calcic oxid .... 3.641 
4.884- 
2.669 
3.472 2.918 
3.969 2.880 
3.641 
Magnesic oxid.. 6.756 
9.062 
6.812 
8.861 6.889 
9.370 5.358 
6.773 
Ferric oxid .... 0.467 
0.626 
0.371 
0.483 0.443 
0.603 0.169 
0.214 
Aluminic oxid.. 0.295 
0.395 
0.061 
0.090 0.262 
0.356 0.263 
0.332 
Manganic oxid. 0.392 
0.526 
0.201 
0.261 0.291 
0.396 0.120 
0.152 
Loss . (2.502) 
(2.517) 
(2 775) 
(9 
. 
Sum.102.747 
103.129 
. 102.541 
. 103.283 
Oxygen equi. to 
chlorin. 2.747 
3.129 
. 2.541 
3 283 
Total.100.000 
100.000 
100.000 100.000 100.000 
100.000 100.000 
100.000 
*CaC0 3 indicates factory waste lime and CaO burnt 
lime. 
fProbably too low, 
though the duplicates agree very 
well. 
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