Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 6i 
ANAL1SES BEETS GROWN WITH FERTILIZERS. 
Fertilizer per acre 1909 
Fertilizer per acre 1910.. 
Yield 1910 . 
Date of sampling. 
Sugar in beet. 
Dry substance in fresh beet. .. . 
Crude ash in dry substance. . . . 
Crude ash in beet. 
Pure ash in beet. .. .. 
Sulfuric acid . 
Phosphoric acid . 
Clilorin . 
Sodium . 
Potassic oxid. 
Sodic oxid. 
Calcic oxid . 
Magnesic oxid. 
Ferric oxid. 
Aluminic oxid . 
Manganic oxid. 
Total nitrogen . 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer). 
Ammonic nitrogen. 
Amid nitrogen. 
Amino nitrogen . 
Nitric nitrogen.. 
Injurious nitrogen in beet. 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar. . . . 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sug. 
XXXII. 
XXXIII. 
xxxiv. 
XXXV. 
HOP 130 K 
20 tons manure 
4 tons CaO 
4 tons CaO 
200 N 
110P, 200N 
20 tons manure 
HOP, 130K, 200N 
250P 170K 
200N 
240P, 100N 
220P, 400N 
220 P, 260K 250P.170K.200N 
12.60 tons 
14.57 tons 
11.9 tons 
11.59 tons 
11 Oct. 
11 Oct. 
11 Oct. 
11 Oct. 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
Percent 
12.40000 
13.60000 
14.70000 
13.70000 
18.80000 
21.60000 
22.00000 
20.10000 
6.38600 
5.66500 
5.25400 
6.32600 
1.20049 
1.22364 
1.15588 
1.25344 
0.95270 
0.93754 
0.91227 
0.93368 
0.02906 
0.04297 
0.04374 
0.03690 
0.06469 
0.09006 
0.08181 
0.04795 
0.17743 
0.13328 
0.14213 
0.14732 
0.11823 
0.08666 
0.09241 
0.09579 
0.43681 
0.43050 
0.41904 
0.42362 
0.04255 
0.02321 
0.01593 
0.04788 
0.03405 
0.03231 
0.04062 
0.07596 
0.08873 
0.07940 
0.08284 
0.00379 
0.00261 
0.00310 
0.00647 
0.00265 
0.00485 
0.00175 
0.00084 
0.00152 
0.00062 
0.00103 
0.00350 
0.15345 
0.23270 
0.17150 
0.17940 
0.07175 
0.08040 
0.08705 
0.07000 
0.00315 
0.00710 
0.00275 
0.00230 
0.00620 
0.01650 
0.00925 
0.00935 
0.03957 
0.02622 
0.03421 
0.04171 
0.01333 
0.00832 
0.00865 
0.01244 
0.07233 
0.12870 
0.07245 
0.09775 
6.14200 
5.26920 
4.85200 
5.48550 
0.58334 
0.94632 
0.62047 
0.71351 
Carbon . 
Sand . 
Silicic acid 
Sulfuric acid .. 
Phosphoric acid 
Clilorin . 
Sodium. 
Carbonic acid.. . 
Potassic oxid . . 
Sodic oxid. 
Calcic oxid .... 
Magnesic oxid. . 
Ferric oxid .... 
Aluminic oxid.. 
Manganic oxid.. 
Loss . 
Sum. 
Oxygen equi. to 
chlorin . 
XLII. 
Crude Pure 
0.500 . 
0.582 . 
1.006 . 
2.421 2.051 
5.389 6.792 
14.780 18.626 
. 12.412* 
18.061 . 
37.077 45.853 
12.481 . 
3.544 4.466 
6.327 7.974 
0.316 0.398 
0.221 0.278 
0.127 0.160 
(0.503) . 
103.335 
3.335 
AsU Analyses. 
XLIII. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.640 
0.747 
1.391 
3.512 
4.584 
7.360 
9.606 
10.892 
14.216 
9.243 
17.890 
35.182 
45.917 
12.437 
2.476 
2.783 
3.632 
7.252 
9.465 
0.213 
• 0.278 
0.396 
0.517 
0.051 
0.066 
(1.712) 
102.458 
2.458 
XLIV. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.355 
0.727 
1.003 
3.748 
4.794 
7.078 
8.968 
12.296 
15.580 
10.130 
17.327 
36.252 
45.934 
12.117 
1.706 
2.795 
3.541 
6.869 
8.703 
0.268 
0.340 
0.151 
0.191 
0,089 
0.113 
(1.700) 
102.775 . 
2.775 
XLV. 
Crude 
Pure 
0.509 
0.679 
1.507 
2.944 
3.952 
3.822 
5.131 
11.753 
15.779 
10.253 
20.572 
33.797 
45.374 
14.115 
5.128 
3.241 
4.351 
6.609 
8.874 
0.516 
0.693 
0.067 
0.090 
0.279 
0.375 
(2.243) 
102.653 
2.653 
Total 
100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 
100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 
^Includes 0.736 of potassium. 
