ANALYSIS OF FORAGE GRASSES. 



451 



4fth, The proportion of elements of respiration or heat-pro- 

 ducing principles, under which head come starch, gum, sugar, 

 pectine, &c., or all the non-nitrogenous principles, with the 

 exception of fatty matters and the ligneous crust of celluline. 



5th, Celluline and woody fibre. 



6th, Mineral matter, or ash.* 



The subjoined table is drawn from the tables contained in 

 Mr Way's paper, in as far as relates to the grasses spoken of 

 above, with the exception of a few not noticed by him. It 

 should be mentioned that the grasses analysed by Mr Way 

 were procured, not from cultivated fields, but from their 

 natural habitats. 



ANALYSIS OP NATURAL GRASSES, AS REMOVED FROM THE FIELD. 



* See 'On the relative Nutritive and Fattening Properties of different 

 Natural and Artificial Grasses, ' by J. T. Way, 'English Journal of Agricul- 

 ture,' vol. xiv. p. 174. 



