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Zealand alone is rather low in albuminoids and not corresponding to 

 the wheat with which it was associated. The kernels were analyzed 

 free from hulls. 



ANALYSIS OF WHEATS OF THE CROP OF 1885. 



Recently several Minnesota wheats, harvested during the season of 

 1885, have been examined. They sustain the averages of previous years, 

 or are slightly richer in albuminoids. The results follows together with 

 those of seed wheats distributed by the Department in the autumn of 

 1885, the products of which it is hoped may be compared another year. 



Analysis of wheats from Minnesota, 1885. 



CONCLUSION. 



The results which have been collected and discussed in this and pre 

 vious reports have shown the wide extent of the variations which occur 

 in the physical and chemical properties of our cereal grains. They have 

 extended over but a few years, and with conditions which have not been 

 sufficiently varied or sufficiently under control. They have served to 

 show, however, how many of the modifying causes are in the hands of 

 the farmer or of the experimental stations, and, to a certain extent, the 

 directions in which advance should be made. The co-operation of prac- 

 tical iield work is now necessary, with laboratory examinations of the 

 results. Until tlj^jjunn Unaccomplished systematically further progress 

 will be slow 



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