ANALYSES OF MILLET, 
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Millet heads, cut while in blossom, gave the following results: 
Silica 45-083 
Phosphates of lime, magnesia and iron - - 20-000 
Carbonate of lime - 0‘160 
Magnesia - O' 130 
Potash - 4*250 
Soda -------- 14-650 
Chlorine --*»»-» trace. 
Sulphuric acid - 12*390 
Organic matter and carbonic acid - 3-145 
99'788 
The large quantity of soda, compared with potash, is quite remarkable. I have no op- 
portunity for repeating the work for the purpose of confirming or disproving this result. 
The almost total absence of chlorine where so much soda exists, is also unfrequent. 
ANALYSIS OF MILLET REED OR GRAIN. 
Silica - .44'294 
Phosphates of lime, magnesia and iron - - 34*555 
Carbonate of lime ..... none. 
Magnesia ....... none. 
Potash - 7*178 
Soda - - - - - - - 8.239 
Sulphuric acid ...... trace. 
Chlorine ....... trace 
Phosphate of the alkalies .... 0-620 
Organic matter ...... 1*459 
From five grains of the ash of millet seed, only a trace of sulphate of barytes was ob¬ 
served. The presence of sulphur is, however, clearly indicated in the organic analysis, 
though only feebly in the ash analyses; the large quantity of nitrogenous matter proving 
that it must be present in a larger amount than appears in the inorganic analysis. 
ANALYSIS OF THE STRAW OF THE RIPE MILLET. 
Elements in a ton of millet straw. 
Silica ....... 
53-750 
44-908 
Phosphates of lime, magnesia and iron - 
18-150 
15'164 
Carbonate of lime - 
0-400 
0-334 
Magnesia ...... 
0-430 
0-360 
Potash ------- 
17*395 
14*533 
Soda ------- 
1-525 
1-274 
Sulphuric acid ..... 
2-500 
2-088 
Chlorine ...... 
0-512 
0-427 
Organic matter ..... 
Carbonic acid ..... 
1-056 
