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slumbers in the seed, because it is their destiny to 

 purvey nourishment for the other vegetable organs ; 

 and it is for this reason, also, that they are, as is 

 shown by comparing the preceding analyses, so very 

 much richer both in nitrogen and mineral substances 

 than the grains of barley. Hence it may be very 

 clearly perceived how necessary abundant food is to 

 plants in their very earliest youth, and how impor- 

 tant it is, therefore, to take due care that they may 

 at this period find it in the soil. 



When employed as manure, malt very 'promptly 

 develops — as might be concluded from its abundant 

 contents of nitrogen and potash, as also from its 

 great facility of decomposition — a strongly forcing 

 operation. Whoever is still unacquainted with its 

 action has only to sprinkle it over a grass-plat, and 

 he will soon be able very clearly to perceive it. That 

 its principal operation takes place during the first 

 year, and that its persistent effects are very incon- 

 siderable, it is now scarcely necessary to mention, 

 and just as little the testimony of experience, that a 

 strong manuring with it may easily induce the lodg- 

 ment of the corn. The manuring value of malt, as 

 met with in commerce, must be regarded as about 

 equal to that of oil-cake. In Saxony it is now pur- 

 chased at from 2s. Qd, to 3^. 4d per cwt., and is more 

 particularly used as a dressing for meadows and 

 garden-grass, or as an addition to stable-muck ; more 

 rarely as the only manure, in which case from 10 to 

 12 cwt. are allowed to the (Saxon) acre. When 

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