Notes. 385 
The note received with the old wheat contains the following 
particulars : — 
Stacked at Wingham in 1864; thrashed in 1892. Stacked in field 
on which grown ; the whole crop of a field about twenty acres. 
Thatched in ordinary way with straw; thatch repaired at intervals. 
The new wheat was a portion of last year’s (1892), crop, stated to 
have been got in under rather unfavourable circumstances, and not in 
very good condition ; but 90 per cent, of it germinated readily when 
tested. 
Old wheat, 
New wheat, 
stacked for 
from same 
28 years 
ground 
Water ........ 
Nitrogenous compounds : — 
9-0 
14-0 
Gluten-fibrin proteids (insoluble in water, 
\ 
soluble in 2 p. c. Na OH.) 
4-3 
7-1 
Legumin-casein proteids (soluble in water, 
precipitated by cupric acetate) 
Peptones 
3*6 
o -3 
v n -5 
o-8 
0.4 
y 10-2 
Amides (calculated as asparagin) 
Nitrogenous compounds (other than proteids, 
0-8 
nil 
peptones and amides) .... 
2 - 5 ^ 
i* 9 ' 
Starch 
60-0 
68-0 
Dextrins ....... 
6-o 
11 
Sugars ........ 
6*2 
nil 
Fat ........ 
Cellulose §c. (residue insoluble in dilute acid 
i*6 
2-0 
and alkali) ...... 
3-5 
3 -o 
Ash ........ 
i -7 
i *5 
99*5 
99-8 
Diastatic power (on starch-solution) of finely- 
divided substance suspended in water 
nil considerable 
Proteolytic power (on gluten-fibrin proteid) of 
finely-divided substance suspended in water 
nil considerable 
The determinations of water, starch, dextrins, sugars, fat, cellulose, 
&c., ash, were made by the ordinary methods used for analysis of 
cereal grains. 
