63 

 TABLE III. 



PROXIMATE COMPOSITION OF AGRICULTURAL PLANTS AND PRODUCTS, giving the average 

 quantities of Water, Organic Matter, Ash, Albuminoids, Carbohydrates, etc., 

 Crude Fiber, Fat, etc., by Professors WOLFF and K.NOP.* 



HAY. 



* Landiuirthschaftlicher Kalender^ 1867, through Knop's Agricultur-Chemie, 1868,, 

 pp 715-720. This Table is, as regards water and ash, a repetition of Table II, but 

 includes the newer analyses of 1865-7. Therefore the averages of water and ash da 

 not in all cases agree with those of the former Tables. It gives besides, the proportions 

 of nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous compounds, /. e., Albuminoids and Carbohydrates, 

 etc. It also states the averages of Crude Fiber and of Fat, etc. The discussion of the 

 data of this Table belongs to the subjects of Food and Cattle-Feeding. They are, how- 

 ever, inserted here, as it is believed they are not to be found elsewhere in the English* 

 language, f Organic Matter here signifies the combustible part of the plant. \\ Car- 

 bohydrates, etc., includes fat, starch, sugar, pectin, etc., all in fact of Org. Matter^ 

 except Albuminoids and Crude Fiber. J Crude Fiber is impure cellulose obtained by 

 the processes described on pages 60 and 61. ^[ Fat, etc , is the ether-extract, p. 94^ 

 and contains besides fat wax, chlorophyll, and in some cases resins. 



