62 The Colorado Experiment Station 
ANALYSES BEETS GROWN WITH FERTILIZERS. 
XXXVI. 
XXXVII. 
4 tons CaO, 
Fertilizer per acre 1909.... 
. . . . 200 N 200 N 
200 N 
200 N 
Fertilizer, pound per acre 
1910. 
.400P, 300K, 200N 500P, 400K, 200N 
Yield 1910. 
. 12.0 tons 
13.16 tons 
Date of sampling. 
. Oct. 11,1910 
Oct. 11, 1910 
Percent 
Percent 
Sugar in the beet. 
. 15.30000* 
13.30000 
Drv substance in fresh beet. 
. 21.00000 
20.10000 
Crude ash in dry substance 
. 5.03700 
6.55600 
Crude ash in fresh beet... 
. 1.05777 
1.31776 
Pure ash in fresh beet. 
. 0.79850 
1.04090 
Sulfuric acid . 
. 0.03315 
0.03345 
Phosphoric acid. 
. 0.04286 
0.07948 
Chlorin . 
. 0.12475 
0.19978 
Sodium equi. to chlorin.. .. 
. 0.08112 
0.12990 
Potassic oxid. 
. 0.36291 
0.45641 
Sodic oxid. 
. 0.03507 
0.02261 
Calcic oxid . 
. 0.03764 
0.03447 
Magnesic oxid. 
. 0.07399 
0.07865 
Ferric oxid. 
. 0.00042 
0.00237 
Aluminic oxid . 
. 0.00474 
0.00372 
Manganic oxid . 
. 0.00179 
0.00000 
Total nitrogen. 
. 0.13760 
0.17770 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer) 
. 0.06745 
0.08035 
Ammonic nitrogen . 
. 0.00145 
0.00290 
Amid nitrogen . 
. 0.00320 
0.00720 
Amino nitrogen . 
. 0.03621 
00.3141 
Nitric nitrogen . 
. 0.00250 
0.01846 
Injurious nitrogen in beet. 
. 0.06550 
0.08725 
Injurious ash per 100 sugar. 
. 4.16340 
6.33200 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 
sugar. .. 
. 0.42810 
0.65603 
Asli Analyses. 
XLVI. 
XLVII. 
Crude 
Pure 
Crude 
Pure 
Carbon . 
0.690 
5.254 
. 
0.460 
0.446 
Silicic acid . 
1.111 
1.039 
Sulfuric acid. 
3.134 
4.152 
2.538 
3.213 
Phosphoric acid. 
4.052 
5.369 
6.031 
7.635 
Chlorin . 
11.794 
15.624 
15.161 
19.195 
10.159 
12.481 
Carbonic acid . 
20.147 
18.334 
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Potassic oxid. 
34.309 
45.451 
34.635 
43.850 
Sodic oxid. 
13.646 
4.393 . 
14.995 
2.173 
Calcic oxid . 
3.526 
4.714 
2.616 
3.312 
Magnesic oxid. 
* 6.995 
9.267 
5.968 
7.556 
Ferric oxid. 
0.040 
0.053 
0.180 
0.228 
Aluminic oxid . 
0.448 
0.593 
0.282 
0.357 
Manganic oxid. 
0.170 
0.225 
(2.103) 
(0.942) 
102.661 
103.421 
Oxygen equi. to chlorin. 
2.661 
3.421 
. 
Total. 
100.000 
100.000 
100.000 
100.000 
♦ This is higher than the factory average by 1.2 percent and is the highest 
percentage of sugar found in beets from this field during the season. There 
were eight beets in the sample. The sample is probably not representative. 
