Anahjses vf Ashes of Plaids. 
Relation of grain, straw, and chaff: — 
Actual Quantities. Per Centage. 
Grain . . . 1054 . . 41-57 
Straw 
Chaflf 
1228 
254 
10-OOJ^'' 
2536 100-00 
Specific gravity of the grain 
Per centage of water and ash : — 
Grain 
Straw 
Chaff 
Water. 
12-0 
12-5 
12-0 
Ash. 
1-71 
5-07 
11-27 
641 
Grain as 1000, 
1000-0 
1165-0 
240 
:»}i405 
2105-5 
1-386 
Ash calculated ' 
on dry substance. 
1-94 
5-79 
•. 12-88 
Produce and mineral matter of an acre : — 
Grain 
Straw 
Cliaff 
Produce. 
cH-ts. lbs. 
19 68 
22 94 
4 50^5 
Mineral Matter, 
lbs. 
37^ 
129^j 
55^ 
Total 
46 100,2, 
222^ 
Specimen No. 50. — Old Red Lammas Wheat. 
From Mr. Philip Pusey. 
[<Sbe7, highly calcareous ; subsoil, the " chalk malm," half way up the 
escarpment of the chalk hills near Wantage. (This and similar soils 
at Newmarket, at Selborne in Hampshire, and in Yorkshire, are 
famous for seed wheat — Mr. Pusey.) After seeds ; the land rather 
wet in winter ; grain good ; 61 lbs. to the bushel.] 
Specific gravity of the grain 
Per centage of water and ash in the grain :- 
Water. Ash. 
12-5 . . 1'84 
Analysis of the ash of the grain : — 
Silica . . . 
Phosphoric Acid 
Sulphuric Acid 
Carbonic Acid 
Lime . 
Magnesia 
Peroxide of Iron 
Potash . . 
Soda . . • 
Chloride of Sodium . 
1-387 
Ash calculated 
on dry substance 
2-10 
5-46 
40-57 
0-32 
none. 
3- 21 
9-56 
2-06 
34-26 
4- 53 
trace. 
Total . . . 
99-97 
