APPENDIX. 



TABLE I. 



COMPOSITION OF THE ASH OF AGRICULTURAL PLANTS AND PRODUCTS, giving the 

 average of all trustworthy Analyses published up to August, 1865, by Professor 

 EMIL WOLFF, of the Royal Academy of Agriculture, at Hohenheim, Wirtem- 

 burg.* 



I. MEADOW HAY AND GRASSES. 



16 



Meadow hay 1 1 3 



Young grass. 



Dead ripe hay [ I 



4JRye grass in flower ] 4 



5|Timothy 



6 Other sweet grasses 



Oats heading out 



in flower.... 



Barley heading out 



in flower 



Winter wheat heading out 



in flower 



Winter rye heading out 



Green cereals, light 



* heavy 



Hungarian millet, green (fan- 



yerm\ 



II. CLOVER AND FODDER PLANTS. 



12.2 

 18.2 



ii. 8 



*From Prof. Wolff's Mittlere Zusammensetxung der Asche, aller land und forst- 

 ivirthschaftlichen ivichtigen Stoffe, Stuttgart, 1865. The above table being more com- 

 plete, and in most particulars more exact than the author's means of reference enable him 

 to construct, and being moreover likely to be the basis of calculations by agricultural 

 chemists abroad for some years to come, has been reproduced here literally. The ref- 

 erences and important explanations accompanying the original, want of space precludes 

 quoting. In the table, oxide of iron, an ingredient normally present to the extent of 

 less than one per cent., is omitted. Chlorine is often omitted, not because absent from 

 the plant, but from uncertainty as to its amount. Carbonic acid is also excluded in all 

 cases, for the sake of uniformity and facility of comparison. 



