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In good clover Tn the hay of 
hay. mown the leached 
June 2. clover. 
Water . 53 site snore 16.03 
Albuminoids Shes tte oe 15.85 
Carbohydrates . 36.12 23-38 
Cellulose . vere wea 37.24 
ASHES 340% Soe es te 8.04 7.50 
100.00 100.00 
BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
In this case the damaged hay contained considerably less ashes than 
the well-made hay. It appears, moreover, that a larger proportion of 
carbohydrates than of albuminoid substances were removed by the water; 
the percentage of albuminoids as well as that of cellulose in the damaged 
hay having been increased by this subtraction of the carbohydrates. 
Ritthausen insists that, to all appearance, his leached clover was still toler- 
ably well-preserved; the leaves and stems retained a pale green color, 
and no traces of decomposition were visible. 
Beyer,* for his part, examined hay made from the kidney vetch (An- 
thyllis vulneraria), one sample of which was cured in dry weather, while 
the other had lain for three weeks exposed to rain. ‘There was con- 
tained in 100 parts of the dry substance of the: — 
Well-made Damaged 
hay. hay. 
Albuminoids tr. as'Gs Cs? 25 tie we 8.66 
Carbohydrates (i) 4.7. : s)/. 05) 3 = eee 45.74 
Fat . Ee 3.22 1.01 
Cellulose . 36.20: 89.87 
Ashes . 6.12 4.72 
In this case, where the exposure to washing and to decay was long con- 
tinued, the loss of albuminoids was large, 27% of these ingredients hav- 
ing decomposed and gone to waste. In all such cases, the amount as Well 
as the kind of decomposition must be determined in great measure by 
the thickness of the swathes, or the size of the cocks or beds in which the 
wet hay is lying. As is well known, the risk of decomposition is gen- 
erally speaking greater in proportion as the heap is larger when the hay 
has become soaked with rain. According to Beyer, the albuminoid 
matters pass into a state of decomposition when they dissolve, and then 
act as a ferment to decompose the carbohydrates. Beyer found that 
much potash, phosphoric acid (nearly 4), lime, and magnesia (about 4), 
had been washed out of the hay, and that the proportion of silica and 
iron oxide in the ashes of the leached hay was large. 
Quite recently, E. Schulze ¢ has examined two samples of damaged 
clover hay as follows: The red clover was all mown on the 15th and 16th of 
June. But one lot was turned on the 17th, and on the 18th it was put upon 
* Cited in Werner’s “ Futterbau,” Berlin, 1875, p. 189. | 
t “ Biedermann’s Centrallblatt fiir Agriculturchemie,” August, 1876, 5. 136. 
