APPENDIX. 385 
- 7 TABLE TIL 
PROXIMATE COMPOSITION OF AGRICULTURAL PLANTS AND PRODUCTS, 
giving the average quantities of Water, Organic Matter, Ash, Album- 
inoids, Carbohydrates, ete., Crude Fiber, Fat, etc., by Professors 
‘WoLrr and Knop.* i; 
= = 
gt 4 [as ; 
Substance. 3 s&§ F Re Ria be 
S 85] 3 SElSs|88l 2 
eo 
oa 
Meadow hay, medium quality. 
Aftermath... ... .. 
Red clover, full blo: 
ed ys IDCs osieeavis 
White clover, full blossom... . midemia 
Swedish or Alsike clover (Zrifolzum hy 
“* clover, ripe, oat 
Lucern, young.. .. 
se “An blossom... . eee eee eee 
Sand lucern, early blossom (Medicagt 
Esparsette, in blossom.........  ..-.. siesisiare 
Incarnate clover, do - um incarnatum).. 
RERE REDE Sn San SeSSSSSRESR5Fe 
BBSReR BCS SESSSSSSE SE SSE SEAL 
3/79.5] 6.2] 8.2/41:3/30.0] 2.0 
3179.2) 6.5) 9.5145.'7/24,0) 2.4 
‘UTT.1 6.2)13.4129.9/35.8) 3.2 
TUV7.2) 5.6) 9.4/20.3/48.0] 2.0 
2194.8) 8.5/14.9/84.3)25.6) 3.5 
275.0) 8.3/15.3/29.2/30.5) 3.3 
t/%8.3] 5.0/10.2/28.1/45.0] 2.2 
7/74.6) 8.719 .'7/82.9/22.0] 3.3 
1/769) 6.4)14.4/22,5/40.0] 2.5 
277.2) 6.1/15.2)26.9/385.1] 3.0 
77.1) 6.2)13.3/86.7/27.1] 2.5. 
116.1) '%.2/12.2/30.1/83.8f 3.0 
Yellow  ‘“ -do Medicago lupulina) TV7.3) 6.0/14.6/36.5/26.2} 3.3 
Vetches, 1 DIOSSOM cies saeescewsaevexins 2/%5.0) 8.3)14,2/85.3/25.5) 2.5 
Peas, ee eee -{16.'7/76.3) '7.0/14.3)/36.8/25.2) 2.6 
Field spurry, in blossom (Spergula arvens 2173.8) 9.5]12.0/89.8/22.0] 3.2 
ts «after blossom.... -116.7/'%5.5] 7.8) '%.8)41.7/26.0] 2.5 
Serradella, ‘a a {16.0)'77.'7] 5.6)14.6/29.2/33.9] 1.5 
i b ./16.7/%5.8| 7.5)15.3/37.2/26.1) 1.9 
.8/77.9] 7.8] 8.7/51.4/16.9] 2.8 
3/81.2) 4.5) 9.7/48.8/22.7) 3.0 
3/83.3] 2.4/10.1/47.2/25.9] 2.9 
3/80.2] 5.5) 9.5/48.0/22.6} 2.8 
3/80." 5.0/14.8/35.0/81.0] 1.8 
“"114,3)/81.1] 4.6/11.6/40.7/28.9] 2.7 
g 3/80.4) 5.3] 9.6/42.0/27.2| 2.0 
9 /14.3/79.0) 6.7/10.6/39.5/29.0) 2.5 
mn 3 : 
S|14.3/75.8] 9.9)11.1]85.3/29.4) 2.7 
English rye grass (Lolium perenne) Cr 114_3/79.9) 6.5110.2/88.9/30.2] 2.7 
Harter Schwingel (Festuca ?).... 4 /14.3/81.0) 4.7/10.4/37.5}33.2) 2.9 
Sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthovanthwm | |’ ~ a 
r 5 /14.3/80.3) 5.4) 8.9/40.2/31.2) 2.9 
| ~ 114.3)/80.2). 5.5 ne ae 3.1 
14,3'80.6] 5.1) 8.9)39.1/32.6] 2.3 
14.3/78.6] 7.1) 8.4/87.6/32.6) 3.2 
14.3/79.8) 5.9) 6,4/42.6/80.8] 2.2 
1473178.8) 7.4) 5.2/42.8)30.3] 2.6 
-./14.3'79,9' 5.8! 9.5/41,7128, 71 2.6 
* Londwirthschaftlicher. Ralender, 1887, throngh Knop’s Agricultur- Chemie, 
1868, pp. 715-720. This Table is, as regards water and ash, a.repetition of Table 
Zi, but includes the newer analyses of 1885-7. Therefore the averages of water 
fat, starch, sugar, pectin, etc., all in fact of Org. matter, except Albuminoids and 
Crude fiber.—f Orude fiber is impure cellulose obtained by the processés describ- 
ed on pages 60 and 61.— Fat, etc., is the ether-extract p. 94, and contains bg- 
sides a wax, chlorophyll, and in some cases resins, alle 
