Analyses of Ashes of Plants. 
G31 
Analysis of the ash of the grain : — 
Removed from an Acre. 
lbs, oxs. 
5-63 
2 8 
43-98 
19 8 
• 21 
0 lib 
none. 
1-80 
0 i 
ll'C.9 
5 3ft 
•29 
0 2 
34-51 
15 
Soila 
1-87 
0 13ft 
Chloride of Sodium . . . 
none. 
of the ash of the straw, m i 
th its proportion of chaff : — 
Removed from an Acre. 
lbs. 07,i. 
, 69-36 
■ 111 l^j 
5-24 
8 6ft 
4-45 
7 2ft 
none. 
G-9C 
1-45 
2 5 
•73 
11-79 
18 14 
none. 
Cliloride of Sodium . . . 
none. 
99-98 
160 1ft 
Specimen No. 41.- 
— HOPETOX 
Wheat. 
From Mr. J. C, Morton. 
\Soil, clay ; subsoil, stone and clay ; geological foi-mation, Silurian ; 
drained. After carrots, 20 tons per acre. Drilled December, 1845 ; 
heavy crop ; mown August 12, carried August 20. Estimated yield 
42 bushels per acre (this and the preceding specimen are from the 
same field, half being sand and hdf clay) ; straw strong, mildewed ; 
grain thin, 60 lbs. to the bushel.] 
Average length of s 
Eclation of grain, straw, and 
.'Votual Quantities. 
Grain . . . 1382 
Straw ... 1723 
Ciiall" . . . 242 
Total . . 3317 
Specific gravity of t 
Per centage of water and ash 
Water. 
Grain . . . 12-00 
Straw . . . 12-00 
Chair . . . 11 -00 
traw . . 4o inches, 
chaff:— 
Per Centage. Orain as 1000. 
4I'29 . . 1000-0 
: I^Sl'"" : : '^^^■'^ 
100-00 2420-C 
he grain . . 1-393 
... Asli calculated 
■ ■ on dry substance. 
1-G9 . . 1-92 
5-15 . . 5'&5 
12-U , . 13-64 
