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Composition and Nutritive Value of Straw. 



come more manifest when the proportion of moisture is become 

 the same in each sample or, in other words, when we examine 

 the three samples after having been stacked for some time. In 

 this state straw contains on an average 16 per cent, of moisture. 

 In the following table I have, therefore, calculated the composi- 

 tion of these three samples with 16 per cent, moisture, and have 

 likewise given the composition of each in a perfectly dry state 

 (dried at 212) : 



Table showing the Estimated Composition when Dried. 



The attentive perusal of these analytical results suggests the 

 following observations : 



1. In the first place, the large proportion of albuminous com- 

 pounds in green oat-straw deserves to be specially noticed : it is as 

 large in amount as occurs on an average in ordinary meadow- 



