New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 431 
Ash Analysis. 
Medium red clover. 
Alsike clover 
White clover 
Bokhara clover 
Lucerne 
Yellow trefoil 
Timothy 
Wood meadow 
Chess 
Ox-eye daisies 
Buttercups 
Timothy (average 16) 
Timothy (average 3) . 
Red clover (av'ge 6). . 
Fodder corn 
Alsike clover 
Wheat straw 
Oat straw 
Corn fodder 
Oats 
Wheat 
Wheat 
Flour 
Corn meal 
Wheat middlings 
Wheat bran ..... 
Shipstuff 
Cottonseed meal 
Linseed meal 
Corn cobs 
Prickly pear, top 
Prickly pear, stump . 
Beet, Mammoth Red 
Ash. 
Phos- 
phoric 
acid, 
p 2 o 5 . 
Potash. 
K 2 3 . 
Soda, 
Na 2 O. 
Lime. 
Ca O. 
Mag- 
nesia. 
Mg O. 
6 
38 
7 
20 
16 
39 

32 
25.46 
5.69 
8 
57 
5 
20 
33 
42 
25.93 
4.62 
8 
24 
7 
49 
26 
04 
98 
0.92 
6 
51 
5 
17 
13 
0.38 
35.73 
4.04 
8 
71 
6 
29 
18 
84 
1 
15 
37.07 
2.16 
6 
40 
7 
88 
18 
00 
2 
78 
33.36 
3.56 
4 
75 
4 
41 
27 
02 
1 
62 
4 
64 
6 
50 
18 
32 
11 
34 
6 
21 
6 
26 
31 
47 
5.22 
16.93 
3.96 
4 
67 
6 
38 
17 
45 
7 
38 
4 
32 
35 
70 
1 
01 
7 
02 
6 
86 
13 
66 
18 
32 
4 
99 
5 
93 
34 
19 
5 
45 
8 
69 
1.93 
4 
32 
5 
92 
23 
33 
8 
23 
10.69 
6 
49 
4 
51 
20 
38 
8 
51 
29 
98 
4.23 
6 
12 
5 
17 
23 
94 
19 
84 
25.36 
4.84 
6 
72 
6 
17 
21 
50 
1 
26 
5 
07 
2 
45 
12 
60 
5 
47 
5.68 
1.52 
5 
80 
1 
17 
27 
76 
4 
82 
9 
28 
.95 
7 
19 
1 
79 
12 
05 
15 
60 
12 
33 
4.63 
3 
54 
41 
68 
12 
53 
1 
13 
3 
33 
2.63 
1 
60 
44 
08 
18 
73 
1 
12 
2 
02 
47 
93 
27 
98 
6 
16 
' i 
19 
6.76 
43 
52 
32 
30 
94 
2 
60 
7 
40 
4.45 
1 
67 
54 
48 
28 
53 
6 
79 
2 
64 
6.83 
3 
93 
50 
08 
18 
22 

15 
1 
83 
2.24 
5 
93 
50 
50 
16 
63 
1 
58 
2 
50 
7.00 
5 
76 
40 
68 
19 
52 
1 
96 
2 
50 
5.94 
7 
34 
43 
56 
29 
04 
10 
00 
4 
08 
6.52 
5 
75 
36 
68 
22 
00 
9 
96 
11 
36 
7.85 
1 
98 

36 
51 
48 
2 
08 
1 
76 
.96 
22 
79 
1 
10 
13 
88 
10 
56 
37 
28 
4.20 
15 
78 

20 
16 
72 
13 
64 
35 
12 
4.01 
19 
55 
4 
78 
41 
25 
3 
80 
1 
68 
1.47 
WHEAT AND ITS PRODUCTS. 
1. Wheat straw. 
2. Wheat grain. 
3. Flour. 
4. Middlings. 
5. Shipstuff. 
6. Bran. 
7. Summary. 
In the State of New York alone it is estimated that there were grown 
last year nearly 12,000,000 bushels of wheat. Therefore a study of 
the chemical composition of wheat and its products, and of the amount 
of fertilizing matter (nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash) removed 
from the soil by the crop, becomes of direct interest, not only to the 
