2.11 | 8.57 | "
Vicia sativa-- | | | | | |
Common Vetch | 19.68 | 2.55 | 32.87 | 22.82 | 5.42 | "
Vicia sepium-- | | | | | |
Bush vetch | 19.23 | 2.40 | 27.62 | 25.87 | 8.21 | "
Onobrychis sativa-- | | | | | |
Sainfoin | 15.38 | 2.51 | 38.30 | 20.59 | 6.56 | "
Medicago sativa-- | | | | | |
Lucerne | 10.63 | 2.30 | 33.47 | 28.51 | 8.42 | "
Medicago lupulina-- | | | | | |
Yellow clover | 20.50 | 3.38 | 27.76 | 22.66 | 9.03 | "
Plantago lanceolata-- | | | | | |
Rib grass | 11.91 | 3.06 | 33.58 | 27.56 | 7.23 | "
Poterium sanguisorba-- | | | | | |
Burnet | 13.96 | 3.34 | 39.50 | 19.89 | 6.64 | "
Achillea millefolium-- | | | | | |
Millefoil | 8.62 | 2.09 | 37.88 | 27.24 | 7.50 | "
+-------+------+-------+-------+------+-----
Mean | 15.81 | 3.18 | 34.42 | 22.47 | 7.59 | 16.6
-----------------------------+-------+------+-------+-------+------+-----

Very many analyses of hay have been made by British and Continental
chemists, the results of which are of great interest to the
agriculturist. The composition of the natural and artificial grasses,
which is shown in the tables given in pages 158-9 will, if we reduce
their per-centage of water to 16, give us an approximation to the
composition of hay. If the herbage, too, be sown in the proper time, and
the hay-making process be skilfully conducted, there will be but little
difference, except in the amount of water, between the plants in their
fresh and dry state; but owing to inopportune wet weather, and
carelessness in manipulation, excellent herbage is not unfrequently
converted into inferior hay.

According to Dr. Voelcker, the average composition of meadow-hay, as
deduced from the results of twenty-five analyses, is as follows:--

Water 14.61
Flesh-forming constituents 8.44
Respiratory and fatty matters 43.63
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