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MANURE. 



bumen, and casein, or the curd of milk and basis of 

 cheese are composed as follows, by Mulder's analy- 

 sis : 



The corresponding products of vegetables, are 1st, 

 gluten, and 2d, its peculiar principle detected by 

 Liebig, called vegetable fibrin ; 3d, vegetable albu- 

 men ; 4th, legumin, or vegetable casein. The two 

 last are identical in composition and properties, with 

 the albumen and casein of animals. Indeed it has 

 been suggested, that animals, never create either of 

 the above, but draw them ready formed from plants. 

 The composition of the vegetable principles, authori- 

 ses such a conclusion. By the analyses of Drs. 

 Scherer and Jones in the laboratory of Liebig, these 

 are constituted as follows : 



