| 99.43 | 99.35 | 100.40 | 99.70 | 100.27 | 99.68 |
+----------------+--------+--------+---------+--------+--------+--------+

+----------------+---------------+--------+----------+---------+--------+
| | | Oat | Oat from | | Oat |
| | Sandy Oat | from | 850 feet |Oat from | from |
| | from | Sea | above |Mellhill,| Kent |
| | East Lothian. | level |Sea level,|Inchture,| (White |
| | | East | East |Scotland.| one |
| | |Lothian.| Lothian. | | side.) |
| +-------+-------+--------+----------+---------+--------+
|Water | 11.70 | 10.95 | 12.60 | 11.28 | 11.70 | 10.55 |
|Flesh-formers-- | | | | | | |
| Soluble | 0.40 | 1.03 | 0.67 | 0.92 | 0.95 | 0.33 |
| Insoluble | 0.93 | 0.43 | 0.38 | 0.39 | 1.21 | 0.33 |
|Oil | 1.45 | 0.77 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.60 | 1.00 |
| | | | | | | |
|Respiratory | | | | | | |
| elements-- | | | | | | |
| Soluble | 10.12 | 6.90 | 7.16 | 7.42 | 12.01 | 6.23 |
| Insoluble | 33.52 | 34.77 | 24.28 | 29.55 | 23.35 | 30.95 |
|Woody fibre | 35.36 | 38.73 | 48.49 | 44.40 | 45.27 | 47.40 |
|Ash | 6.36 | 6.28 | 5.11 | 5.07 | 3.95 | 3.62 |
| +-------+-------+--------+----------+---------+--------+
| | 99.84 | 99.86 | 99.94 | 100.39 | 100.14 | 100.41 |
+----------------+-------+-------+--------+----------+---------+--------+

[...] This table is compiled from Dr. Anderson's paper in the
Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
for March, 1862.

Many very important conclusions are deducible from the facts recorded
in these valuable tables. We learn from them that straw is more
nutritious when it is cut in the ripe state than when it is permitted
to over-ripen, and that _green_ straw contains a far greater amount of
nutriment than is found even in the ripe article. It appears also that
the least nutritious kind of straw equals the best variety of turnips in
it