14G Annual Report. 



attempts to convert them profitably into marketable fertilizers have 

 proved abortive ; the townspeople at Frankfort, Dresden, Leip- 

 zig, Antwerp, Brussels^ and Berlin have to pay for the removal 

 of the contents of the cesspools ; and the question how to dispose 

 of these economically, without creating^ a nuisance, is as much 

 agitated in Germany as it is in England at the present time. 



The Cattle-Melon. 



The failure of the turnip-crop has brought into greater promi- 

 nence the cultivation of the cattle-melon. A specimen of this 

 new vegetable yielded on analysis the following results : — 



Composition of Cattle-melon. 



AVater 90-66 



*Albuminons compounds (flesh-forming matters) .. 1'66 



Su^ar, miicila?;© and digestible fibre 5-74 



"Woody fibre (cellulose) 1'17 



Mineral matters (ash) "TT 



100-00 

 ♦Containing nitrogen .. .. '265 



It has been supposed that the cattle-melon is equal in nutri- 

 tive properties to mangolds, but this is a mistake, as will be seen 

 by comparing the composition of another specimen of cattle- 

 melon, analysed by me some time ago, with that of yellow globe 

 mangolds. 



Composition of a specimen of Cattle-melon and of Yellow Globe Mangold- 



wurzel. 



1. General Composition. 



Cattle-melon. ™wGlobe 



Water 92-030 88-450 



Organic matters 7-350 10-524 



Mineral matters (ash) -620 1-026 



100-000 100-000 



2. Detailed Composition. 



Water 92-030 88-450 



^Soluble albuminous compounds -619 -887 



flnsoluble albuminous compounds -156 "104 



Sugar and mucilage 4-661 7'538 



Woody fibre (cruile) 1-914 1-995 



Soluble mineral matters -540 -952 



Insoluble mineral matters '080 '074 



100-000 100-000 



♦Containing nitrogen '099 '142 



fContaining nitrogen -025 -017 



Total nitrogen -124 -159 



Equal to albuminous compounds (flesh-\ _». ,„„, 



tbrming matters) j ' 



