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5. The proportion of woody fiber. 



6. The amount of mineral matter or ash. 



The specimens were picked out, plant by plant, each specimen by itself, from fields in 

 which they were growing naturally, or mixed in the ordinary mode of cultivation, and 

 were not raised expressly for analysis. 



The results of the analysis of the natural grasses in the green state, are arranged in the 

 following table: 



TABLE I. Analysis of Natural Grasses. (100 parts, as taken green from the field.) 



TABLE II. Analysis of Artificial Grasses. (100 parts, as taken from the field.) 



