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Deterioration Sugar Beets Due to Nitrates 
EXPERIMENTS WITH SODIC NITRATE. 
Samples 
Taken 11 Oct. 
1910. 
Injurious 
Injurious 
Nitrogen 
No. of 
Fertilizers 
Total 
Nitric 
Nitrogen 
per 100 of 
Analysis 
*usecl 
Nitrogen Nitrogen 
in Beet 
Sugar 
LX. 
. ... 250 N 
0.16355 
0.00925 
0.07770 
0.46019 
LXI . 
. . . . 250 N 
0.14915 
0.00760 
0.07400 
0.44849 
LXII . 
.... 500 N 
0.17133 
0.00501 
0.08058 
0.51984 
LXIII. 
. . . . 500 N 
0.22405 
0.00941 
0.11845 
0.72668 
LX1V . 
. . . . 750 N 
0.25365 
0.02026 
0.13942 
0.88237 
LNV . 
. . . . 750 N 
0.29395 
0.04646 
0.16317 
1.25520 
LXVI . 
_ 1,000 N 
0.28390 
0.04653 
0.15909 
1.29340 
LXVII . 
- 1.000 N 
0.25556 
0.05051 
0.13798 
1.11275 
LXVI 11. 
_ 1.250 N 
0.28175 
0.05404 
0.10925 
0.86705 
LXIX. 
_ 1,250 N 
0.21180 
0.03846 
0.10500 
0.79543 
LXX . 
0.19740 
0.02666 
0.11180 
0.79856 
LXXI . 
0.19380 
0.01800 
0.08450 
0.54905 
Samples Taken 3 Nov. 
1910. 
LXXII . 
.... 250 N 
0.14470 
0.00181 
0.06870 
0.43758 
LXXIII . 
.... 250 N 
0.14485 
0.00144 
0.06010 
0.36424 
LXXIV. 
. . . . 500 N 
0.18225 
0.01658 
0.09195 
0.60051 
LXXV. 
. . . . 500 N 
0.20053 
0.01009 
0.10679 
0.68221 
LXXVI . 
. 750 N 
0.22484 
0.02006 
0.12004 
0.78456 
LXXVII . 
. . . . 750 N 
0.29610 
0.04143 
0.17321 
1.29250 
LXXVTII . 
. . . . 1,000 N 
0.26660 
0.04008 
0.16017 
1.19561 
LXXIX. 
_ 1,000 N 
0.25505 
0.06285 
0.15431 
1.40267 
LXXX. 
. . . . 1,250 N 
0.25360 
0.04225 
01.4273 
1.11510 
LXXXI . 
. . . . 1,250 N 
0.19140 
0.00949 
0.09719 
0.66115 
LXXXII . 
. .. . None 
0.21330 
0.00949 
0.11725 
0.82571 
LXXXTII . 
0.20605 
0.01984 
0.10750 
0.71591 
XX. 
. .. . None 
0.25215 
0.04537 
0.13660 
1.07246 
Analysis XX represents beets grown on a favorably located 
piece of land, a rather light sandy loam. This land lies immediately 
west of that on which we made the experiments with sodic nitrate 
and the sample was taken less than 200 feet west of the west end of 
our experimental fields. The sample was taken, because the sam¬ 
ples taken from our check field on 23 Sept, and 11 Oct. revealed the 
fact that they were not consistent with themselves and that our sec¬ 
ond sample from Field 5 and first sample from Field 6, though taken 
about 54 feet apart, agreed much more nearly than the two samples 
from Field 5, which were taken within 27 feet of one another and 
had received 1,250 pounds of sodic nitrate per acre, whereas Field 
6 had received none. 
We attempted to determine the nitric nitrogen in Field 6 at 
stated intervals throughout the season. The field was reported 
flooded on 6 July and so wet on 10 Aug., eleven days subsequent to 
the last preceding irrigation, that samples could not be taken. I 
feared that the results obtained with the samples from Field 6, 
which lay a little lower than Field 5, might have been due to acci¬ 
dental causes whereby the beets might have been supplied with 
nitrates carried from the adjacent, higher-lying portion of Field 5. 
This may not have been the case but the results led me to fear that, 
it might be, so I took the sample represented by Analysis XX, which 
