Analyses of Farm Manures. 



Taken Chiefly from Reports of the New york, 

 Massachusetts and Connecticut Experiment Stations. 



Food for 

 Plants 



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Analyses of Fertilizing Materials in Farm Products. 

 Analyses of Hay and Dry Coarse Fodders. 



Name of Substance. 



II. Hay and Dry Coarse 

 Fodders. 



Blue melilot 



Buttercups 



Carrot tops (dry) 



Clover (alsike) 



Clover (Bokhara) 



Clover (mammoth red) .... 



Clover (medium red) 



Clover (white) 



Corn fodder 



Corn stover 



Cow-pea vines 



Daisy (white) 



Daisy (ox-eye) 



Hungarian grass 



Italian rye-grass 



June grass 



Lucern (alfalfa) 



Moisture. 



8.22 



9.76 



9.93 



6.36 



11.41 



10.72 



28.24 

 9.00 

 9.65 



7.15 



8.29 



6.26 



Nitrogen. 



1.92 

 1.02 

 3.13 

 2.33 

 1.77 

 2.23 

 2.09 

 2.75 

 1.80 

 1.12 

 1.64 

 0.28 

 0.80 

 1.16 

 1.15 

 1.05 

 2.07 



Potash. 



2.80 

 0.81 

 4.88 

 2.01 

 1.67 

 1.22 

 2.20 

 1.81 

 0.76 

 1.32 

 0.91 

 1.25 

 2.23 

 1.28 

 0.99 

 1.46 

 1.46 



Phosphoric 

 Acid. 



0.54 

 0.41 

 0.61 

 0.70 

 0.44 

 0.55 

 0.44 

 0.52 

 0.51 

 0.30 

 0.53 

 0.44 

 0.27 

 0.35 

 0.55 

 . 37 

 0.53 



