analysis, the composition of a good fodder, better in some 
respects than mixed ha}', and that the co-efficient of diges- 
tion for its proteids is higher than that of our native hay, 
which is considered a very desirable one. 
The native hay yields, when analyzed according to our 
method, exceedingly different results from the leguminous 
hays. 
While the following analysis may not be so exact as 
one might wish, it is not far from the truth, and shows that 
there is a very great difference between the two classes of 
hay — hay made from leguminous plants and hay made from 
the grasses. Subsequent investigation may, it is true, mod- 
ify these results somewhat, but we think that this difference 
exists and that it is fully as great as appears from the re- 
sults of our analysis. I know of no analysis of hay made in 
a similar manner; a single determination of sugar — sucrose 
— in a sample of timothy hay, by Professor Stone, is all that 
I can find. He gives the sugar in his sample of timothy hay 
as 2.53 per cent. 
ANALYSIS OF UPLAND HAY. 
Per cent. 
Invert sugar 0.00 
Cane sugar o.q8 
Dextrin 0.00 
Starch 0.40 
Xylan, inverted by dilute acid 1.77 
Xylan, soluble in dilute alkali 0.79 
Lignones, dissolved by chlorin 3.12 
Cellulose '27.93 
Moisture 3.05 
Ash 7.89 
Ether extract 2.22 
Proteids b - 13 
Soluble in alcohol, sugar, etc., deducted i 
Soluble in water, dextrine, etc., deducted \ 
Not determined 35-97 
100.00 
The reaction of the original sample and also the crude 
fiber prepared from it with phloroglucin is very much 
fainter than that given by the leguminous hays. I regret 
that we did not determine the total xylan by distillation, as 
that might have added something to our knowledge of the 
thirty-six per cent, which is missing. But the comparative 
faintness of the phloroglucin reaction indicates that the 
