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TABLE VI.— Analyses of Artificial grasses, (in 100 parts of the grass dried at 212'' Fabr.) 



NAME OF PLANTS. 



Trifi'liuin piatense, 



Trifuliuin priitonse perenne, 



Trifoliutn inciirnalutn, 



Trifuliuin medium, 



di) 2d ?;peciraen, . . . . , 



Tri folium procuinbens, • 



Trifolium repens, 



Vicia saliva, 



Vicia sepium, 



Onobrychis saliva, 



Medicago lupulina, 



Piantago laiiceolata, 



Puteriuiu sanguiiorbia, 



Achillea millefolium, 



Medicugo galiva, 



u 



C fcA 



c 



S s 



c t! »: 

 c c; « 





n 



& 



£ 



22.55 

 iy.18 

 16.60 

 24.33 

 18.77 

 20.43 

 18.76 

 23.61 

 23.08 

 18.45 

 24.60 

 li.29 

 16.75 

 10.34 

 12.76 



3.67 



4. oy 



3.73 

 3.57 



4.77 

 4.67 

 4.. 38 

 3.06 

 2.88 

 3.01 

 4.06 

 3.67 



r * «> 



•JT" "> 

 eS = q 



44.47 



u 

 <9 



.a 



O 

 O 



42, 

 37 



42 

 60 



4. 



2, 

 2. 



01 

 51 

 76 



36.36 

 49.fi5 

 43.86 

 40.(14 

 3^.45 

 33.15 

 46.96 

 33.31 

 40.29 

 47.40 

 45.46 

 40.16 



19.75 

 25.96 

 32.39 

 24.14 

 18.84 

 22.66 

 2i).53 



1^ 



"3 



a 



<5 eJ 



9.66 

 8.35 



04 



27, 



81, 



24.71 



27.19 



33.07 



23.87 



32.69 



34-21 



9. 



11, 

 7, 

 8, 



10 

 6, 

 9, 

 7' 



10, 

 8, 

 7. 

 9, 



10, 



78 

 60 

 97 

 H3 

 29 

 60 

 85 

 b7 

 84 

 63 

 97 

 (iO 

 U 



" The two last tables give the cumpositi'jn of the grasses in a dry 

 state. The numbers must therefore be somewhat modified for 

 them w^hen in the state of hay; for however dry it may appear, 

 no grass can be made absolutely dry without artificial lieat. The 

 usual proportion of moisture in well-made hay, I believe to be 

 about 16 per cent.; and a grass that has been dried artificially, 

 will in the open air acquire about this degree of moisture. It 

 would have occupied space unnecessarily to have given the num- 

 bers which would apply to the grasses in the state of hay, and 

 the calculation can be easily made by those who care for it; from 

 the percentage of albuminous or fatty matter in the dry speci- 

 men, about one-sixth is to be deducted to ascertain the quantity 

 present in the hay. The numbers however, are strictly compara- 

 ble with each other. 



" We will first advert to table V — that of the natural grasses in 

 the dry state — leaving out of the questii>n for the present the 

 water-meadow grass and the Dactylis glomerata, of which the 

 seeds are ripened. We find the following numbers to represent 

 the lowest, highest, and average quantities per cent, of the differ- 

 ent principles in the s])ecimens (^f natural grasses examined : 



Lowest. Ilighcst. Average. 



Flesh-forming principles, 6.08 17.29 10.98 



Fat-producing " 2.11 3.67 3.08 



Heat-giving " 38.03 57.82 45.57 



