III general. tin- 'J-row barley- ami tin- \\e-tern barley- al-o -lm\\ 

 that ;i -omewhat larger |n|nrt in nf tin- protein i- -<)hil)lt' in low 

 than in lii^li protfin larlrv- (MM- \t. r.'i. Tin- -aim- relation is true 

 with re>pr-t t the malt- aUo. 



In the following taldr tin- -ample- <f the Manelnirian-( hlerlirneUer 

 tvpr aiv ai-ranL r M| in ^roiip ling IM pi-ntein miitent and the 



nveragee f -olnlle and of aoluble-coagnlmble pi-otei'. <j\\^\\ I'm- eaeli 



irrnup. Tin-re i- a -mall \m\ di-tinet decrease >f the peremta^ 1 of 

 >olnlIe protein with increa-in^ total protein, hut there are many 

 indi\ilual e\ei-piinn- h> thi- nil- illy in the -a>e of the inaxi- 



iiiiini and iiiiniinuin t 



of 



A- has already hoen noted, tho amount of solnhlc nitrooron do- 

 Cremsefi with the inerea>e of the total nitrogen: \\'aller>tein showed, 

 however, that hi<rh protein and hirh >olnhle protein go together. 

 This i- not neee arily a contradiction, for in this study the per- 

 centairc of -oluhle nitrogen \va- -oinpared with the total nitrogen, 

 while Waller-tein ha- only compared the percentage of total soluble 

 nitrogen of high and low protein barleys. 



Of the protein- in oarley. therefore, from 81 to 85 per cent are in- 

 >oliil,h-. ( )f the soluble proteilu alxnit M per cent are coagulable. On 



