Analyses of Ashes of' Plants. 
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Spkcimkn No. 32. — Pu^er's Thickset Wheat. 
From Mr. David Bowly, Siddington, near Cirencester. 
[6'ot7, good loam ; subsoil, gravel; Vinchiiined ; after turnips fed off by 
sheep; turnips raised by farm-yard manure. Drilled first week in 
February, 1846; crop always looked well; reaped and harvested 
first week in August. Estimated yield 48 bushels an acre ; straw 
short and stiff ; grain middling quality, 59 lbs. to the bushel.] 
Average length of straw . . ... 30 inches. 
Centage. Urain as 1 
•56-7 . . . 1000-0 
Actual Quantities. Percentage. Urain as loou 
(iiaiii . . . 2204 . . .56"7 . . . 1000-0 
Straw . . . 1252 . . 32-21^, , . . 5(i8-0 
Chafl' ... 432 
Toial . . 3888 lOO-O I;G2-0 
Specific gravity of the grain . . 1'339 
Per centage of water and ash : — 
Water. Asli. Ash calculated 
on dry substance. 
Grain ... 11-5 . . 1-73 . . 1-95 
Straw . . . 10-5 . . 11-00 . . 12-29 
Chaff . . . 12-5_ . . 15-51_ . . 17-12 
Produce and mineral matter removed from an acre : — 
Produce. Mineral Matter, 
cwts. lbs. lbs. 
Grain ... 25 32 . . 49 
Straw ... 11 40.^ . . 177 
Chafl" ... 4 14 . . 83 
Total . . 43, 86^ 311 
Specimen No. 33. — White Wheat. 
From Mr. Robert Darby, Cirencester. 
\^Soil, alluvial ; subsoil, strong clay ; geological formation, the forest 
marble (member of the inferior oolite) ; undrained ; the land forms 
part of a nursery, and is under spade husbandry. Dibbled 15th 
February, 1846, 1 foot wide and 4 inches apart, one seed only in 
in each hole, half an inch deep; crop looked very well; reaped 
August 6th. Estimated yield 48 bushels an acre ; straw strong ; 
thick large ear ; grain middling, 60 lbs. to the bushel.] 
Average length of straw . . 41 inches. 
Grain as 1000. 
1000-0 
207-Oj''^-'' " 
Actual Quantities. Per Centage. 
Grain . . . 1280 . . 42-90 
Straw . . . 1436 . 48-221.- 
Cliair . . . 2()5 , . 8-88r' 
2981 
100-00 
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