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Analyses of Ashes of Plants. 
Produce and mineral matter of 
an acre : — 
Produce. 
Mineral MattT. 
c«ts. lbs. 
lU-s. 
Grain . 
8 80 
Straw . 
9 107^, , 
. . 76,1, 
Cliaff . . . 
1 82^,% . 
, . 27f5 
Total . 
20 4.Va 
12-2^ 
Specimen No. 19. — Creeping Wheat. 
From Sir John Johnstone * 
[Soil, a heavy, tough clay; subsoil, a red clay; geological for?}iation, 
the coralline limestone; undrained. After tolerable crop of turnips 
fed off; turnips raised by 8 or 10 cart-loads of short manure from the 
yard per acre. Drilled December 1st, 1845 ; crop looked well at 
harvest; bagged August 24th. Estimated yield 22 bushels per acre ; 
straw of middling strength ; grain good, 62 lbs, to the bushel.] 
Average length of the straw . . 42 inches. 
Relation of grain, straw, and chaff : — 
Grain . 
Straw . 
Chaff . 
Total 
Actual Quantities. 
. 82(5 
. 8^7 
. 137 
. 1820 
Per Cent.ige 
45-38 
47-09) . 
7-53 J 
Grain as 1000. 
] 000-0 
4-62 
1032-01 
l()5-8/ 
1107-8 
100-00 
2197-8 
Specific gravity of the grain 
Per ccntage of water and ash : — 
Water. 
1-376 
Grain 
Straw 
Chaff 
13-00 
1 IJ - 0 j 
12-00 
Asli. 
1-50 
4-OS 
11-97 
Ash calculated 
on dry subitaiicc. 
1-72 
4-54 
13-GO 
Produce and mineral matter of an acre: 
(iraiii 
Straw 
Chaff 
Produce, 
cwts. lbs 
12 20 
12 63 
2 2^! 
Mineral Matler. 
lbs. 
• 20^ 
• '"A 
27 
Total 
20 85V 
1014 
Specimen No. 20. — Talaveka or Spring Wheat. 
From Sir John Johnstone. ■\ 
[Snil, tough clay; subsoil, calcareous clay ; geological formation, coral 
line limcstane ; undrained. After crop of turnips eat oil". Si.\ cart 
* From a farm in the occupation of Mr. John Cockerill, Huckiicss. 
J From a fiirm in the occupation of Mr. Thoma-! Ho]i))or, Siiflicld. 
