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EXAMINATION OP CLOVERS. 



which the flesh-forming and other nutritive substances 

 must be drawn ; while in Timothy the water amounts 

 to only a little over 57 per cent., leaving 43 per cent, of 

 solid substances containing nutritive principles. 



This is an important difference, to begin with. The 

 percentage of flesh-forming principles of the two plants 

 does not, at first sight, appear to differ very materially, 

 the clover containing 4.27, the Timothy 4.86 ; but a lit- 

 tle consideration of the exceeding value of this con- 

 stituent will show that the latter has an important 

 advantage in this respect over the clover. In fat-form- 

 ing principles the Timothy is more than twice as rich 

 as clover; while in heat-producing principles also very 

 valuable Timothy far surpasses clover, the one pro- 

 ducing 22.85 per cent., and the other only 8.45 per cent. 

 Of waste and useless matter in the shape of woody fibre 

 Timothy contains the largest per cent., while the larger 

 quantity of mineral matter shows it also to be a greater 

 exhauster of the soil. The most valuable practical de- 



TABLE VII. ANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIAL GRASSES. 

 (WO parts, as taken from the field.) 



