7G REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



AVERAGES. 



The analyses in the preceding tables, when combined with thopc pre- 

 viously published, modify to a certain immaterial decree the average 

 composition of the wheat of the whole country. The few mattered 

 analyses from the Eastern States change the averages for those States 

 very slightly, the gi eater number of specimens coming from Ohio, Min- 

 nesota, Dakota, and California, localities which were not represented 

 before, or at most indifferently well ; and from Colorado, where wheats 

 from the same farm have been examined for three consecutive years: 



