556 Examination of Cabbage. 
This is a fall and winter kind. It has a large compact oblately 
spheroidal head, yellowish green without, and blanched within. 
It varies from 8 to 15 inches in diameter, and weighs when pro- 
perly cultivated, from 10 to 20, and sometimes 30 pounds. Stalks 
stout, and of medium length, leaves smooth. 
The plant here examined was furnished by J. B. Hutson, of 
Albany. The part taken for organic analysis, was a section ex- 
tending from the centre to the circumference of the head. 
Sugar and extractive matter with the body which 
gives the pecuUar odor to cabbage, 
Oil and wax, ------- 
Fibre, with a little starch and chlorophyl. 
Fibre, after digesting in alcohol and a weak solu- 
tion of potash, .---._ 
Matter dissolved out of fibre by a weak solution of 
. potash — resembles albumen, - . - 
Albumen, ------- 
Casein, -------- 
Dextrine, ------- 
Water, ------ 
Calculated with. 
out the water. 
9-32 
55-977 
•16 
•962 
•94 
5^646 
2-16 
12-974 
•88 
5-281 
1-74 
10^461 
•36 
2-157 
1-09 
6-542 
83-42 
100-07 
100-000 
For proportions I took 200 grains from about half-w'ay between 
the circumference and centre of the head. It gives a little more 
water than that taken for organic analysis. 
Per cent of water, 88-665 
do of diy matter, .-.--.. 11-335 
do ofash, -790 
do ash calculated on the di*y mattei-, - - - - 6-969 
Allowing each head to weigh 151bs., and each plant to occupy 
a space equal to a square yard, the produce per acre would be 
about 36 tons. Of this, 30 tons would be water, and 6 tons dry 
matter, 
Niti-ogenous products in a ton of the fresh plant, - 59-61bs. 
do do do dried plant, about, 358* 
do in the annual produce of an acre, 
allowing the yield to be 36 tons, ... - 2148. 
Inorganic bodies in a ton of the fi-esh plant, - - 15-8Ibs. 
do do do dried plant, - - - 139^38 
do removed annually from an acre, - 569^ 
Water in a ton of the fresh plant, . . - - 17681bs. 
Dry matter do do do . . - - 232 
