ANALYSES OF BEANS. 
283 
It appears from the foregoing analyses, that the ashes of the several varieties of bean 
differ somewhat; the greatest deviation from the majority of them being in the Turtle- 
soup bean. The ash varied somewhat in the degree of causticity, or in the amount of 
carbonic acid. The ash, in each instance, was perfectly burned and white. There is a 
great resemblance between the composition of the ash of beans and that of the cereals, 
in respect to their richness in earths, alkalies and phosphates. 
The exhausting power of a crop of beans may be determined by the following calcula¬ 
tions. A bushel of beans weighs about 60 lbs. There will be removed in every ten 
bushels of beans : 
Silica 
Earthy phosphates - 
Alkaline phosphates 
Lime - 
Magnesia 
Potash - - - 
Soda - 
Sulphuric acid 
Chlorine 
Turtle-soup bean. Horticulturist bean. 
lbs. 
OZ. 
lbs. 
OZ. 
0 
8 - 
584 
0 
0*755 
2 
2 - 
732 
7 
8-360 
1 
10 - 
936 
0 
14-160 
0 
0 
■592 
3 
10 - 
045 
8 
15-790 
4 
7 ' 
■780 
2 
11-329 
1 
O ' 
•280 
1 
0-387 
- 
0 
0-037 
16 
8 
•949 
21 
2-818 
There will be removed in a ton of foliage: 
Silica ... 
_ 
_ 
lbs. 
14 
OZ. 
15-341 
Earthy phosphates - 
- 
- 
- 
15 
12-861 
Lime - 
- 
- 
- 
3 
7-965 
Magnesia - 
- 
- 
- 
0 
0-608 
Potash ... 
- 
- 
- 
4 
13-977 
Soda 
- 
- 
25 
0-160 
Sulphuric acid - 
- 
- 
- 
-# 0 
5-129 
Chlorine - 
- 
- 
- 
0 
1-304 
64 
9-345 
Beans, although put upon what is regarded the barren soils, still make shift to supply 
themselves with the richest and most valuable constituents of the soil; and hence they 
may be regarded as an exhausting crop. The plan of starving the bean is, after all, the 
true mode of treating it, otherwise it would become strong and unpalatable. 
