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Weight per bushel, ^-e., of hard, soft, and immature wheat Continued. 

 OTHER SOFT WHEATS. 



IMMATURE AND POOR WHEATS. 



AVERAGE OF 42 POOR WHEATS FROM OHIO IX 1883. 



WHEATS WITH HIGHEST AND LOWEST ALBUMEN AND LARGEST SIZE. 



HIGHEST WEIGHT PER BUSHEL. 



3570 Colorado. 



Hard red 



12.95 



1812 



Alabama 



LOWEST WEIGHT PER BUSHEL. 



48 2. 166 . . . Immature 



9.80 



From these figures, which have been obtained by weighing miniature 

 bushels which were graduated by comparison with the weight of large 

 amounts of grain in struck bushels, it appears that hard spring wheat 

 will average about 65 pounds per pushel, soft white Oregon 58J 

 pounds, the ordinary soft wheat of the East 62.5, the poorly-matured 

 grain of Alabama 55.5, the crop of 1883 in Ohio 56.6, while we have 

 seen that the large plump Colorado grain weighs 65.2 pounds. The 

 averages for different seasons in Colorado vary directly as the percent- 

 ages of albuminoids, although among the less fully matured grain the 

 lighter often contains more nitrogen from lack of starch, as in the case 

 of the Ohio crop of 1883. This was found to be the case by Lawes and 

 Gilbert in their experiments, but does not always hold true, as may be 

 seen among the Alabama wheats and some others. Tne Oregon wheats 

 finely matured, rich in starch, and low in nitrogen, which are very 

 spongy and light in weight, are illustrative of this point. 



