103 
ANALYSES OF THE OAT. 
3. Ash of the chaff. 
Silica .... 
Coal ..... 
Phosphates ... 
Carbonate of lime 
Magnesia - 
Potash - 
Soda 
Carbonic acid and organic matter 
20 • 000 grs. 
7-500 
Calcnlated without coal, carbonic 
acid or organic matter. 
44-876 
1-120 
2-900 
17-348 
1-090 
6-520 
0-098 
0-582 
4-200 
25-130 
0-890 
5-324 
1-742 
19-540 
99-800 
COMPOSITION or THE PHOSPHATES. 
Silica ..... 
. 
. 
0 
CO 
o 
Phosphate of iron - - - 
- 
- 
O' 
■04 
Lime ..... 
- 
- 
0 
■05 
Magnesia .... 
- 
- 
O' 
•31 
Phosphoric acid ... 
- 
- 
1- 
91 
COMPOSITION OF THE PHOSPHATES OF 
THE GRAIN 
OF 
EACH 
ACRE. 
West. 
Middle. 
East. 
Soluble silica ..... 
0-025 
o- 
030 
0 
•030 
Phosphate of peroxide of iron 
0-375 
o- 
190 
O' 
■190 
Magnesia ------ 
1-234 
1- 
314 
1- 
■234 
Lime ------- 
0-727 
o- 
665 
O' 
•694 
Phosphoric acid ..... 
2-839 
3 
■201 
2 
■592 
II. Organic constituents of the oat or grain of each acre respectively. 
1. East acre. 
236'40 grs. oats yielded of 
Paleas or husks - 
Kernels 
69*30 
167-10 
194' 16 grs. kernels gave of 
Fine white flour - - - - - 115'12 
Bran (about like that separated at the mills) 79‘02 
Percentage. 
29-314 
70-686 
59-291 
40-709 
Flour. 
115" 12 grs. flour gave of 
Starch ...... 89-91 77-232 
Epidermis, pilose*, gluten and oil - 4*32 3-752 
Percentage of ash in the epidermis and pilose (mostly pilose) 2-315. 
obtained from this specimen of flour. 
Nothing more was 
The pilose is the short hairs appended to the epidermis. 
