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These samples, in albuminoids, certainly do not attain the high 

 standard of quality set by Maercker. 



Of American barleys, the only investigation, in addition to nine an- 

 alyses collected by Professor Brewer, is that of eleven specimens at the 

 Brewers' Experiment Station in New York, in 1883 or 1884,* the results 

 of which are here given in one hundred parts of dry substance: 



The investigation proves principally that the weight per bushel is 

 hardly a safe guide as to quality, but one must rather judge from the 

 percentage of moisture and nitrogenous constituents which the grain 

 contains. The specimens examined were certainly not extremely starchy, 

 nor were they very dry. Being so few in number, they hardly form a 

 basis for rational conclusion in regard to our grain and its comparison 

 with that of other countries, but they were considered by the editor of 

 the Prag. Agricultural Journal as showing that American barleys were 

 quite equal to those of the Continent. 



* Bied. Centbl. j. Agrikchemie 13, 491-2. 



