or any other, cultivated plant, and an
analysis is accordingly given.

An analysis made by Doctor Thomas Antisell, chemist to the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, and published in the Report of that
Department about the year 1869, gives the following as the composition
of the Peanut plant:

In one hundred parts of the husk and nut taken together

Water 2.60
Albuminous, fibrous matter and starch 79.26
Oil 16.00
Ash 2.00
Loss .14
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100.00

In one hundred parts of the husk and seed separated:

_Seed._ _Husk._
Moisture 2.51 2.61
Albuminous matter and farina 79.71 traces.
Cellulose 85.48
Ash 1.77 11.90
Oil 16.00
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99.99 99.99

"The ash of the seed," it was stated by the same authority, "consists of
salts wholly soluble in water, composed of the phosphates of alkalies,
with traces of alkaline, chlorides, and sulphates. The ash of the husk
differs, in consisting chiefly of common salt, phosphate of lime and
magnesia."

The analysis of the ash of the Peanut, furnished to the _American
Agriculturist_, by H. B. Cornwall, Professor of Analytical Chemistry in
the John C. Green School of Science, College of New Jersey, Princeton,
and published in that Journal for July, 1880, gives the following as the
mineral elements of this plant:

PER ONE HUNDRED PARTS OF ASH.

Silica 1.06
Potash 44.73
Soda 14.60
Lime 1.71
Magnesia 12.65
Phosphoric acid 17.64
Sulphuric acid 2.53
Chlorine 0.15
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95.07

In this analysis neither the carbonic acid nor carbon were determined.

It was further stated that the kernels yielded 2.08 per cent. of
ash.

These analyses, the one of the ash, and the other of the seed and husk
in their natural state, are sufficiently full for the purpose in view,
and serve admirably to show the principal elements required in