+----------------+---------------+--------+----------+---------+--------+ | | | 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 its amount of flesh-forming principles, and greatly exceeds them in its proportion of fat-forming elements. We further learn that in general the different kinds of straw will be found to stand in the following order, the most nutritious occupying the highest, and the least nutritious the lowest place:-- 1. Pea-haulm. 2. Oat-straw. 3. Bean-straw with the pods. 4. Barley-straw. 5. Wheat-straw. 6. Bean-stalks without the pods.