Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 
ANALYSES OF BEETS GROWN WITH APPLICATION OP NITRATES. 
77 
LXXX 
Field 5 
Date of sampling - . 3 Nov. 
Sodic nitrate per acre. 1250 lbs. 
Yield, tons per acre. 15.96 
Percent 
Sugar in beets. ] 2.80000 
Dry matter in fresh beet. 19.80000 
Crude ash in dry beet. 
Crude ash in fresh beet. 
Pure ash in fresh beet. 
Sulfuric acid. 
Phosphoric acid . 
Chlorin . 
Sodium. 
Potassic oxid . 
Sodic oxid 
Calcic oxid . . . 
Magnesic oxid 
Ferric oxid . . . 
4.92800 
0.97574 
0.68028 
0.03147 
0.02434 
0.04389 
0.02854 
0.25473 
0.15964 
0.03838 
0.09282 
0.00358 
LXXXI 
Field 5 
3 Nov. 
1250 lbs. 
15.96 
Percent 
14.70000 
21.60000 
3.97400 
0.85837 
0.58881 
0.03335 
0.02208 
0.01953 
0.01269 
0.22820 
0.12244 
0.04353 
0.09773 
0.00423 
LXXXII 
Field 6 
3 Nov. 
LXXXIII 
Field 6 
3 Nov. 
14.47 
Percent 
14.20000 
20.20000 
4.30200 
0.86900 
14.47 
Percent 
14.30000 
19.90000 
4.51700 
0.89888 
0.63879 
0.03130 
0.04634 
0.04792 
0.03276 
0.26374 
0.08661 
0.03533 
0.09053 
0.00198 
Aluminic oxid. 
0.00122 
0.00334 
0.00155 
Manganic oxid (br) . . 
0.00166 
0.00169 
0.00082 
Total nitrogen . 
0.25360 
0.19140 
0.21330 
0.20605 
Proteid nitrogen (Stutzer). 
0.08475 
0.07980 
0.07950 
0.08070 
Ammonic nitrogen . . 
0.00366 
0.00315 
0.00245 
0.00290 
Amid nitrogen . 
0.02246 
0.01726 
0.01410 
0.01495 
Amino nitrogen . 
0.05241 
0.05837 
0.05110 
0.05231 
Nitric nitrogen. 
0.04225 
0.00949 
0.00949 
0.01984 
Injurious nitrogen in 
beet. 
0.14273 
0.09719 
0.11725 
0.10750 
Injurious ash per 100 
sugar. . . . 
4.04900 
3.51170 
3.10430 
Injurious nitrogen per 100 sug. 
1.11510 
0.66115 
0.82571 
0.71591 
Press Juice According 
to Ruempler. 
Total nitrogen . 
0.23380 
0.17820 
0.18295 
0.16775 
Albumin nitrogen . . . 
0.04795 
0.04005 
0.04070 
0.04410 
Propetone nitrogen . 
0.01180 
0.01060 
0.00990 
0.00170 
Peptone nitrogen . . . 
0.00030 
0.00030 
0.00400 
Asli Analyses. 
LXXXVIII 
LXXXIX 
XC 
Crude 
Pure 
Crude 
Pure Crude 
Pure 
Carbon . 
0 588 
0 701 
Sand .. 
3 418 
0 7Q1 
Silicic acid . 
1.563 
1 460 
0 744 
Sulfuric acid. 
3.225 
4.626 
3.880 
5.656 
3.482 
4.899 
Phosphoric acid . 
2.495 
3.579 
2.572 
3.750 
5.155 
7.254 
Chlorin . 
4.498 
6.452 
2.275 
3.317 
5.332 
7.503 
Sodium .. 
4.196 
2.156 
4.867 
Carbonic acid. 
. . . 26.052 
25.827 
2 3 31 0 
Potassic oxid. 
. . . 26.106 
37.445 
26.586 
38.756 
29.341 
41.288 
Sodic oxid . 
. . . 20.300 
23.467 
16.256 
20.794 
14.483 
13.820 
Calcic oxid . 
3.933 
5.641 
5.077 
7.401 
3.919 
5.515 
Magnesic oxid . 
9.513 
13.645 
11.386 
16.598 
10.072 
14.173 
Ferric oxid. 
0.367 
0.526 
0.492 
0.718 
0.220 
0.310 
Aluminic oxid. 
0.125 
0.179 
0.389 
0.567 
0.172 
0.242 
Manganic oxid (br).. 
0.170 
0.244 
0.197 
0.287 
0.092 
0.129 
Loss . 
. .. (0.245) 
(0.110) 
(3.389) 
Sum. 101.014 
Oxygen equi. to chlorin. 1.014 
100.513 
.513 
101.203 
1.203 
Total. 100.000 100.000 
100.000 100.000 
100.000 100.000 
