BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 89 
Dry organic matter . . . 9.62 12.86 25.95 
Fat (ether extract) . . . 0.34 We 7.75 
Diener as sw. lS - 0.15 45 0.92 
emotes we... (OTT 1.50 1.71 
The Hubbard Squashes weighed 5 kil. and 3} kil. They were 9x11 
and 8X9 inches in diameter respectively, and their seeds, &c., weighed 
355 and 350 grms. The larger squash contained 87.87% of water in 
the flesh; 80.789 in the rind; and 64.99% in the seeds &c.: while 
the other contained 82.68 %, of water in the flesh; 17.23% in the rind, 
and 68.45¢, in the seeds and stringy matter. The mean percentage of 
water was 85.28 in the flesh, 79.01 in the rind, and 66.72% in the inside 
matter. 
The Hubbard Squash is figured and described in the ‘‘ New England 
Farmer,’’ 1859, U8. 113, and 1863, 15. 209; also in Burr’s ‘Field and 
Garden Vegetables,’ p. 218. It is supposed to be of foreign origin. 
The analyses gave the following results. It will be noticed that these 
results accord very well with the popular impression that the flesh of the 
Hubbard squash is drier and sweeter than that of other squashes. The 
percentage of carbohydrates (including sugar and the like) and of dry 
organic matter are exceedingly large; while the percentage of water is 
Hubbard Squash. Flesh. Rind. Seeds, &c. 
Water. . . . - ~~ « 85.28% 79.01% 66.72%, 
Ash (free from C and CO,) 0.91. 1.13 1.64 
mapmeninoide ei re...) 0.69 25 6.07 
Carbohydrates (including fat) 12.13 13.22 19.33 
Cellulose (free from ash) . . 0.99 3.89 6.24 
100.00 100.00 100.00 
Dry organic matter . . . 13.81 19.86 31.64 
Fat (ether extract) . .. 0.15 0.80 7.56 
Meee CC} (LIT 0.44 0.97 
eee . . . . (0.98 Et7 ad its 
less than in either of the other squashes examined. The proportion 
_ which obtains between the albuminoid matters and the carbohydrates in 
the flesh of the Hubbard squash (1 :18}) is nearly the same as that given 
by Wolff for the sugar beet, and very unlike the proportion found in the 
flesh of the pumpkins (1: 5) and other squashes (1:7.7 in the marrow, 
and 1:7.3 in the crook-neck). 
The Crooked-necked Squashes weighed about 5 kil. each, and contained 
89.33 9% of water in the flesh, 81.35%, in the rind, and 83.32% in the 
Werner, in his ‘‘ Handbuch des Futterbaues,” Berlin, 1875, p. 725, the same im- 
pression, that pumpkin seeds diminish the flow of milk, has been expressed in 
South Germany ; and it has been recommended there, also, that the seeds‘should 
be removed on this account. 
