Analyses of Ashes of Plants. 
GI5 
loads of straw manure per acre applied for the turnips. Sown broad- 
cast in March, 1846 (4 bushels per acre of good seed); crop looked 
well and even at harvest ; bagged August 24th. Estimated yield 
32 bushels per acre; straw strong and clean ; grain goo<l, G2 lbs. to 
the bushel.] 
AverasfC Icnciftli of the straw . . 43 inches. 
Relation of grain, straw, and chafF : — 
Actual Qaan!it;f* Per Cvntage. 
Grain ... 903 . . 41-5(> 
Straw ... 970 . . 47-591 .. , 
Chaff ... 160 . . 7-85r'' 
Total . . 2133 100-00 
Specific gravity of the grain 
per centage of water and ash : — 
Grain . 
Straw . 
Chaff . 
Water. 
11-CO 
1]'73 
11-00 
Ash. 
1-6 
5-98 
13'24 
Produce and mineral matter of an acre : — 
Grain . 
Straw . 
Chaff . 
Total 
Produce, 
cwts. lbs. 
17 80 
18 102^ 
39 
Grain as 1000. 
1000-0 
1068-0 
24 1-1 
2-2 14-1 
1-363 
Ash calculated 
cn dry substance. 
1-79 
6-77 
17-12 
Mineral Matter. 
lbs. 
31^ 
• 130^ 
21 3A 
Spkcimen Xo. 21. — Hammond's Wheat (or Golden Drop?). 
From Sir Joh.ri Johnstone.* 
[Soil, free clay loam, in a low situation exposed to floods ; subsoil, 
clay ; geological formation, blue clays of the coal-grit (oolitic), but 
covered here by alluvium ; drained. After naked summer fallow, 
sown broadcast about Christmas; crop wasted by flood, otherwife 
looked well and promised 28 bushels; bagged (?) August 24t]i. 
Estimated crop 10 bushels per acre; straw tolerably strong; grain 
second quality, 60 lbs. to the bushel.] 
Average length of the straw . . 40 inches. 
Relation of grain, straw, and chafF : 
Per Centage. 
40-92 
44-1] 
8-97/ 
Grain . 
Straw . 
Chaff , 
Actual Quantities. 
. 11S7 
. IIIG 
. 227 
[|53-0S 
Grain as lOCO. 
1000-0 
932-4 
,9,.2}ll23.G 
Total . . 2530 100 -CO 
Specific gravity of the grain 
2123-C 
1-354 
• From a farm in flie occupation of Mr. Herbert Prodliam, Harwood Dale, N. R . 
of Yorkshire. 
