118 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Ash of Corn Cobs. 



[Republished at request.] 



Moisture at 100° C, . 



Ash (average of seven analyses), 



Per cent. 



10.0000 



.9845 



One hundred parts of crude cob ash, dissolved in hydro- 

 chloric acid, contained the following elements in the stated 

 proportions : — 



The samples which served for the above analyses were 

 raised under varying conditions ; one being obtained from 

 South Carolina, another from Illinois, and the remaining 

 three from this vicinity. The sample of Canada Corn shows 

 the result of high fertilization. For further details, see 

 "Analyses of Different Varieties of Corn," in Report of 

 Secretary Massachusetts Agricultural Society, 1879-80, 

 page 238. 



Analysis of Wheat Bran, laith reference to its Fertilizing 



Constituents. 



Per cent. 



Moisture at 100° C, '.18 



Phosphoric acid, 2.46 



Calcium oxide, .26 



Magnesium oxide, .89 



Sodium oxide, .37 



Potassium oxide, 1.95 



Nitrogen (in dry matter), 2 86 



Insoluble matter, .14 



Valuation per 2,000 lbs., . . . . . . . . $14.91 



