OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 139 
specimen, it was suggested that only the more tender parts of the 
ts 
for the high percentage of ash and albuminoids, which are generally 
higher in immature plants, and the ash would probably be richer in 
shows. Being then in a different stage of 
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does not very well bear comparison with those of the other plants. 
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was at once shown on charring, as the mass in the crucible slowly 
burnt away after its removal from the fire, and without further 
annijecat 
and more or less smoky flame, which was particularly the case with 
0. 7, diffusing at the same time a peculiar, somewhat fishy odour, 
whilst it exhibited no such peculiarity either as to flame or odour. 
TaBvLaR SrareMenT of the Composition of European Fodder Plants at the 
time of flowering. 
E | g 3 4 
Meadow Hay. Red Clover. Lucerne. Oaten Hay. 
BU Wirbh eet beni 3°29 3°64 2-94 4:34 
Carbohydrates ...| 48-25 43°79 40-95 49-18 
Albuminoids ......| 10-82 16-70 17-06 10°86 
Woody fibre ...... 30°35 17 31-41 24 
“ccmae Se ee 7-29 6°70 7-64 5°38 
ennai 
100°00 100-00 10000 100-00 
On | On 
ash. | p ash. | p ash. | plant./ ash. | plant. 
s+tseeseees] 26°20 | 1°915 | 32°25 | 2°16] | 13°66 | 1-044 | 35-24 | 1° 
ei 3°06| -205} 2°05) 156] 759) * 
Chloride sodium ..| 11 384/257 | 260) 199) 275 148 
eceteeeeeeeese| 13°88 | 1-002 | 38°19 | 2-225 | 62°83 | 4 
pagnesia Bs occbs ee. 4-97 | 362 | 12-04} -806| 4°90) -374) 3°69| “199 
Oxide ....., 46| -033| -74| 050/ 1:03) °078/; ‘61/ 033 
San phorie oxide.| 6-25} -455| 9°77} -654| $15) °623|1028| “553 
Silina  * O™4e--.|_ 5°33} +388} 2°95| -191| 3°90, 298) 2°67| 144 
vais aes 2982} | 2. 2°65) -178| °81| -062| 25°34) 1-363 
No.1. Mean of fifty analyses, representing hay of good quality. Way. 
No, 2 at's Dict. 2nd Sup, p. 530. no 
No, 3, Mann of eleven analyses of hay of good . Way. Loe. 
of a small ber of anal ay. Loe. cit. 
No. 4. One nall number of analyses. y 5 
period of flowering, entire plants. Arndt. Jarsb, Agri. 
Chem, 858-9, p. 24, 
