APPENDIX. 



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TABLE IIL 



PBOXIMATB COMPOSITION OP AGRICULTURAL PLA.NTS AND PRODUCTS, 

 giving the average quantities of Water, Organic Matter, Ash, Album 

 inoids, Carbohydrates, etc., Crude Fiber, Fat, etc., by Professors 

 WOLFF and KNOP.* 



Substance. 



Meadow hay, medium quality. 

 Aftermath .................. 



Red clover, full blossom ...... 



HAY. 



ripe 

 , full 



White clover, full blossom 



Swedish or Alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum) 16. 



&quot; clover, ripe. 

 Lucern, young 



in blossom. 



Sand lucern early blossom (Medicago intermedia) 16 



Esparsette, m blossom &quot; 



Incarnate clover, do (Trifolium incarnaturri). 



Yellow &quot; do (Medicago lupulina) 



Vetches, in blossom 



Peas, &quot; &quot; , 



Field spurry, in blossom (Spergula arvensis) 



&quot; &quot; after blossom... 



Berradella, &quot; 

 before 



Italian Rye grass (Lolium italicum) 



Timothy (Pnleum pratense) 



Early meadow grass (Poa annua) 



Crested dog s tail (Cynosurus cristatus) 



Soft brome grass (Bromus mottis) 



(Ornithopus sativus). 



Orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata).. 

 Barley grass (Ho 



, Jordeum pratense) 



Meadow foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis) 



Oat grass, French rye grass (Arrhenatherum 



avenaceum) 



English rye grass (Lolium perenne) 



Harter Schwingel (Festuca ?) 



Sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthoxanthum 



odoratum) 



Velvet grass (Holcus lanatus).. 



Spear grass, Kentucky Blue grass (Poa 



pratensis) 



Rough meadow grass (Poa trimalis) 

 Yellow oat grass (Avena-flan 

 Quaking grass (Briza media) 

 Average of all the grasses. . 



2.0 

 2.4 

 3.2 

 2.0 

 3.5 

 3.3 

 2.2 

 3.3 

 2.5 

 3.0 

 2.5 

 3.0 

 3.3 

 2.5 

 2.6 

 3.2 

 2.6 

 1.5 

 1.9 

 2.8 

 3.0 

 2.9 

 2.8 

 1.8 

 2.7 

 2.0 

 2.5 



2.7 

 2.7 

 2.0 



3.1 



2.G 



* Landwirtfischaftticher Kalender, 1867, through Knop s Agricultur- Chemle, 

 1868, pp. 715-720. This Table is, as regards water and ash, a repetition of Table 

 II, but includes the newer analyses of 1865-7. Therefore the averages of water 

 and ash do not in all cases agree with those of the former Tables. It gives be 

 sides, the proportions of nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous compounds, i. e., Al 

 buminoids and Carbohydrates, etc. It also states the averages of Crude fiber and 

 of Fat, etc. The discussion of the data of this Table belongs to the subjects of 

 Food and Cattle-Feeding. They are, however, inserted here, as it is believed 

 they are not to be found elsewhere in the English language. t Organic matter 

 here signifies the combustible part of the plant. ] Carbohydrates, etc., includes 

 fat, starch, sugar, pectin, etc., all in fact of Org. matter, except Albuminoids and 

 Crude fiber. $ Crude fiber is impure cellulose obtained by the processes describ 

 ed on pages 60 and 61. 1 Fat, etc., is the ether-extract p. SH, and contains be 

 sides fat, wax, chlorophyll, and in some cases resins. 

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