326 Agricultural Chemistry — Sheep- Feeding and Manure. 



For the purposes of these determinations four samples were 

 usually taken, each consisting of 100 ounces. All of these were 

 immediately so far dried in a stove as to prevent their further 

 growth, and render them fit for preservation. Two of the lots 

 were then fully dried and burnt, thus giving the per-centages 

 of dry-matter and ash respectively ; the other samples remaining 

 for further examination at any future time. 



From the first column of Table 6 we learn that the barley 

 acquired nearly half its weight of water in the steep-cistern, and 

 that this amount was gradually reduced as the growth proceeded, 

 for the per-centage of dry matter is seen to increase at a some- 

 what uniform rate of progression. The exhalation would appear 

 to be somewhat more rapid as the process advances, for it is greater 

 during the period from the 22nd to the 26th than in the previous 

 one, notwithstanding 568 lbs. of water had been sprinkled upon 

 the floor. 



At the period of each of these samplings the whole of the grain 

 on the floor was measured, and the weight of every eighth bushel 

 taken, from which the average being struck, the actual weight on 

 the floor could be determined. 



The actual and the applied results of these measurings, weigh- 

 ings, samplings, dryings, &c., are arranged in the following 

 Tables : — 



SERIES IV. 



Table 7, — Siiowing the Actual and Corrected Quantities of Barley, Malt, 

 and Intermediate Products of the Maltins" Process. 



