ANALYSES OF THE OAT. 
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IV. ANALYSIS OF OATS FROM GENESEE COUNTY. 
Raised by Judge Peters. Variety unknown. The soil is that peculiar clay loam which is 
adapted to wheat, and belongs to the Onondaga-salt group. 
PROPORTIONS. 
Straw -------- 703'20 grs. 
Grain -------- 765’50 
Chaff -------. 143-70 
100 grs. dried in the sun, gave 
Straw 
Chaff - 
Grain 
An unfinished analysis of the grain and chaff. 
Silica - 
. 
_ 
_ 
_ 
_ 
Grain. 
39-80 
Chaff. 
45-00 
Phosphates - 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
27-50 
11-00 
Carbonate of lime 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
o-io 
trace. 
Magnesia 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
0-09 
o-oi 
Potash - 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
12-65 
8-22 
Soda 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
5-32 
4-52 
4-875 grs. of ash, 
6-875 
2-750 
EXPERIMENT WITH THE OAT CROP. 
In accordance with the wish of the State Agricultural Society, I have made several 
analyses of soils and oats growing upon them, for the purpose of throwing additional light 
on the value of manures, and the exhausting power of different crops. The Society had 
offered a premium for experiments on three acres of ground, with three successive crops. 
These experiments were to be conducted in the following manner : 1. The acres to be 
contiguous to each other : 2. One acre was to be manured with not less than ten cords of 
common barnyard manure the first year, and plowed under; the second acre to be ma¬ 
nured with fermented or composted manure, and the other acre to receive no manure: 
3. The three acres to be planted with corn the first year; the second, to be sowed with 
barley or oats; and the third year, to be cultivated with winter grain. Only one gentle¬ 
man undertook the execution of the experiment : Mr. I. F. Osborn, Port Byron, Cayuga 
county. 
It is proper to remark, that I have been supplied with the soil since the first crop was 
taken off. The soil which was supplied for the purpose of examination, to show what 
it was before the experiments began, was taken from the outskirts of the field. It was the 
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