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drying frames (Heu-bécke), where it remained during the rainy weather 
that persisted during the last half of June, and was housed on the 7th 
July. The other lot, on the contrary, remained lying upon the field 
during the entire rainy period. This second lot was turned several times: 
it was cocked on the 30th June and 2d July, and housed on the 3d July. 
The composition of the two samples was as follows. In 100 parts of the 
hay dried at 100° or 110°, there was found : — 
In the hay In the hay 
from the dry- that lay on 
ing frames, the ground, 
Albuminoids. . . op pag bh 6 ae 9.56 
Carbohydrates (including fat). . 43.93 36.62 
Cellulose. . . tei ee ee Os 50.47 
SM Ge oh sik fel 4.96 3.35 
100.00 100.00 
Fat (i.e. ether extract) . . . . 2.80 1.89 
Substances still soluble in water . 32.33 18.00 
From the analysis, it appears that the hay cured upon the drying 
frames was not very severely damaged. It would still be classed as 
clover hay, though its composition is distinctly inferior to that of normal 
clover hay as given in the tables of fodder values. But the hay that lay 
upon the ground was of very bad quality. Both samples contained a 
smaller proportion of ashes, of albuminoids, and of carbohydrates, than 
normal clover hay, anda much larger proportion of cellulose; and the 
remark is specially true of the second sample, that was particularly 
exposed to fermentation and leaching from having lain unprotected upon 
the field. It is to be remarked, however, that a larger proportion of 
leaves and flowers had been lost by rubbing off from the last-named sam- 
ple, than from the other, because of its having been turned and handled 
more frequently. 
It will be noticed that, in three out of the four sets of analyses above 
cited, the total amount of ashes is considerably less in the washed hay 
than in the hay that has never been wet; a result which consists with 
the experiments upon leaves and herbs that have been described on 
the preceding pages. It may be accepted as a rule, that a compara- 
tively large proportion of the ash ingredients of fresh leaves and herbs, 
and, in general, of the young or growing parts of plants may be washed 
out by means of water. But, as has been seen already from the anal- 
yses on page 27, this remark appears not to be true, either of spent 
logwood or of spent tan-bark. A given weight of either of these 
leached materials was found to contain more ashes than were contained 
in a similar weight of the natural wood or bark, though the composi- 
tion of the ashes was decidedly different in the two cases. 
