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The weight per bushel and the yield per acre in all cases were given 

 by the exhibitors, and the evidence substantiating the statements made 

 was not communicated to this division by the judges of awards. In 

 respect of extremes of variation, the following data will be of interest: 



In the United States the largest grains of barley were grown in 

 Washington and the smallest in Kansas. In moisture the largest per- 

 centage was found in a New York sample, viz, 12.96, and the smallest 

 in a sample from Pennsylvania, viz, 8.92. In "Canada the maximum and 

 minimum percentages found were 13.61 and 9.15, respectively. Among 

 foreign exhibits the highest percentage of moisture, viz, 13.25, was 

 found in a sample from the Argentine Republic, and the lowest, viz, 

 11.67, in a sample from Spain. The comparisons of the other constitu- 

 ents of the barley in regard to maxima and minima and means can be 

 seen with sufficient detail in the following table: 



Table of maxima, minima, and means. 



a Washington. 

 b New York. 

 c Michigan. 



d Minnesota. 

 e Indiana. 

 / Kansas. 



g Utah. j Spain. 



h Pennsylvania. k Argentine Republic. 



i Illinois. 



For a more detailed description of the composition of barley the 

 results of some former work in the Division of Chemistry may be cited 

 (Bulletin ]STo. 9, p. 77) : 



Number of analyses 14 



Water per cent.. 6.47 



Ash .. fin 9, 



do. 



Oil v do. 



Sugar do. 



Dextrin and soluble starch do. 



Starch . 



2.87 

 2.67 

 7.02 

 3.55 



do... 62.09 



Albuminoids soluble in 80 per cent alcob ol do ... 3. 66 



Albuminoids insoluble in 80 per cent alcohol do ... 7. 86 



Indigestible fiber do.. . 3.81 



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