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The Colorado Experiment Station 
ANALYSES OF BEETS AND LEAVES,* SEASON 1811. 
Variety. 
Date of sampling. 
Nitrate applied per acre to date.... 
Average weight of beets. 
Average weight of leaves. 
Average weight of beets, trimmed. 
Sugar in beets.. 
Coefficient of purity. 
Dry substance in beets. 
Dry substance in leaves. 
Total nitrogen in beets. .. 
Total nitrogen in leaves. 
Proteid nitrogen in beets (Stutzer) 
Proteid nitrogen in leaves. 
Ammonic nitrogen in beets. 
Amid nitrogen in beets. 
Amino nitrogen in beets. 
Nitric nitrogen in beets. 
Nitric nitrogen in leaves. 
CXXVI 
CXXVII 
E R 
Z R 
8 August 
8 August 
None 
None 
439.4 grams 
441.0 grams 
619.0 grams 
745.5 grams 
Percent 
Percent 
9.90000 
9.80000 
75.10000 
73.20000 
15.48000 
15.26000 
9.53000 
9.91000 
0.15576 
0.17617 
0.33578 
0.33792 
0.06917 
0.07022 
0.25634 
0.24665 
0.00277 
0.00277 
0.00568 
0.00568 
0.01789 
0.01789 
0.02819 
0.03643 
0.05461 
0.05724 
Press Juice of Beets According to Ruempler. 
Total nitrogen .... 
Albumin nitrogen . 
Propetone nitrogen 
Peptone nitrogen . . 
0.13852 
0.04389 
0.00000 
0.00000 
0.14027 
0.05335 
0.00025 
0.00150 
ANALYSES OF BEETS AND LEAVES, SEASON 1911. 
ANALYSES. 
CXXVIII CXXIX cxxx 
Variety. E It E R Check Z R 
Date of sampling. 18 Aug. 18 Aug. 18 Aug. 
Nitrate applied per acre. 250 pounds None 250 pounds 
Average weight of beets.528.8 grams 
Average weight of leaves.786.4 grams 
Average weight of beets, trim’d 
None 
482.0 grams 
718.2 grams 
CXXXI 
Z R Check 
18 Aug. 
None 
459.6 grams 
713.2 grams 
Percent 
Sugar in beets.^ . 9.30000 
Coefficient of purity. 74.20000 
Dry substance in beets. 15.03000 
Dry substance in leaves. 9.07000 
Total nitrogen in beets. 0.15312 
Total nitrogen in leaves. 0.27522 
Proteid nitrogen in beets. 0.07656 
Proteid nitrogen in leaves. 0.21991 
0.00264 
0.00607 
0.02580 
0.03272 
0.06125 
Ammonic nitrogen in beets.... 
Amid nitrogen in beets. 
Amino nitrogen in beets. 
Nitric nitrogen in beets. 
Nitric nitrogen in leaves. 
Press Juice According 
Total nitrogen. 0.12384 
Albumin nitrogen. 0.05277 
Propetone nitrogen . 0.00452 
Peptone nitrogen . 0.00226 
Percent 
9.70000 
74.60000 
16.00000 
9.30000 
0.15378 
0.27258 
0.07551 
0.22097 
0.00303 
0.00581 
0.02841 
0.02998 
0.03256 
to Ruempler. 
0.15297 
0.05843 
9 
0.00450 
Percent 
9.30000 
74.20000 
13.69000 
9.08000 
0.14850 
0.27060 
0.07932 
0.22720 
0.00198 
0.00594 
0.03178 
0.03086 
0.06239 
Lost 
0.05151 
0.00578 
0.00101 
455.2 grams 
670.9 grams 
Percent 
9.50000 
76.00000 
15.02000 
9.35000 
0.14058 
0.25674 
0.07997 
0.20673 
0.00211 
0.00568 
0.03625 
0.02357 
0.04360 
0.12367 
0.05730 
? 
0.00175 
beet the whole 
*By leaves we mean the blades and stems together and by _ , ~. 
root including the crown, but they were trimmed, i. e., the crowns cut off, 
before they were analyzed. 
