260 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
It appears from these analyses that both the milk-weed and the 
dock are highly nitrogenous plants when young, and that their 
composition compares favorably with that of the weeds previously 
studied (see page 128). They doubtless have considerable value 
as fodder, as would naturally be inferred from the fact of their 
having been used as human food. 
I am indebted to my assistant, Mr. D. S. Lewis, for aid in this 
investigation. 
_January, 1878. 
