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IV. ANALYSIS OF OATS FROM GENESEE COUNTY. 



Raised by Judge Peters. Variety unknown. The soil is that peculiar clay loam which is 

 adapted to wheat, and belongs to the Onondaga-salt group. 



PROPORTIONS. 



Straw 703-20 grs. 



Grain 765-50 



Chaff - . - - 143-70 



100 grs. dried in the sun, gave 



Straw - 4-875 grs. of ash. 



Chaff 6-875 



Grain - - - - - - - - 2 ■ 750 



An unfinished analysis of She grain and chaff. 



Grain. Chaff: 



Silica 39-80 45-00 



Phosphates 27-50 11-00 



Carbonate of lime 0-10 trace. 



Magnesia - 0-09 0-01 



Potash 12-65 8-22 



Soda 5-32 4-52 



EXPERIMENT WITH THE OAT CROP. 



In accordance with the wish of the State Agricultural Society, I have made several 

 analyses of soils and oats growing upon them, for the purpose of throwing additional light 

 on the value of manures, and the exhausting power of different crops. The Society had 

 offered a premium for experiments on three acres of ground, with three successive crops. 

 These experiments were to be conducted in the following manner : 1. The acres to be 

 contiguous to each other : 2. One acre was to be manured with not less than ten cords of 

 common barnyard manure the first year, aiid plowed under ; the second acre to be ma- 

 nured with fermented or composted manure, and the other acre to receive no manure : 

 3. The three acres to be planted with corn the first year; the second, to be sowed with 

 barley or oats ; and the third year, to be cultivated with winter grain. Only one gentle- 

 man undertook the execution of the experiment : Mr. I. F. Osbohn, Port Byron, Cayuga 

 county. 



It is proper to remark, that I have been supplied with the soil since the first crop was 

 taken off. The soil which was supplied for the purpose of examination, to show what, 

 it was before the experiments began, was taken frtmi the outskirts of the field. It was the 

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