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In 100 parts of dry substance Continued. 



Louis Marx has also examined a large number of barleys four hun- 

 dred from various countries, extending over six years' crops. His 

 results have furnished the following averages for the amount of albu- 

 minoids usually present : 



In Kussia, as with wheats, barley was found to be rich in albuminoids, 

 one reaching 16.00. Bohemia and England, both celebrated for their 

 malt, furnished but few samples with over 10.00 per cent. Bavaria, with 

 68 samples, had only 6 over 12.00 per cent. 



The thick-hulled barleys were as a whole poorer in nitrogen, the hull 

 being, of course, poor in that element. There was found to be no rela- 

 tion between nitrogen and phosphoric acid. 



Some analyses by Lunter of barleys of the crop of 1883, used in the 

 experimental brewery at Munich, have been published lately in Bieder- 

 mann's Centralblatt fur Agrikulturchemie, without great comment. 



He finds in the experimental field that continuous cultivation for 

 years can be carried on without essential alteration of the quality. 



