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manures supplied to all parts of the country, there should be 

 only two which fall below their guarantees so far as to require 

 the Chemical Committee to make special mention of them. 

 The following are the two substances referred to : — 



Associa- 

 tions. 



Carse of 

 Gowrie, 



Lanark, 



Manure. 



Turnip manure. 



Superphosphate. 



Guarantee. 



Analysis. 



r Soluble phosphate, 23-50 

 A Insoluble ditto, , 2-00 

 (Ammonia, . . 1-75 



/Soluble phosphate, 25 "00 

 \ Insoluble ditto, . 



20-47 

 8-00 



Price, 



£ s. 

 5 10 



2 5 



Value. 



£ s. 

 3 9 



2 1 



No. 1 was a sample of turnip manure supplied by Messrs 

 Prentice Brothers, Stowmarket. It was found to contain nearly 

 one-third less soluble phosphate than was guaranteed, and it 

 was sold at a price much in excess of its value. They explain 

 the deficiency in the following letter to the secretaries of the 

 association and the Society : — 



Stowmarket, 31st December 1887. 

 Alex. Anderson, Esq., Berryhill, Dundee. 



Dear Sir, — Mr Andrew A. Dudgeon has handed us your letter of the 

 26th ult. for our reply. 



We do not think you seriously mean to make a note in the Highland 

 Society's Transactions of the matter referred to in your letter ! 



There was a discrepancy in the analysis of the turnip manure, owing to 

 a serious mistake made at our stores from which the manure was sent, but 

 the whole transaction has been satisfactorily cleared up with Mr Powrie, 

 and he has accepted an allotoance which we have made him, owing to the 

 short analysis. 



The manure sent him was inadvertently dispatched from a heap of old 

 stock of turnip manure which was lying in the stores, and which had been 

 damp, and thus had slightly deteriorated in equality. We had in the store 

 the turnip manure which was sent there this season, and the analysis of 

 this heap comes fully up to our guarantee, and this is the manure which should 

 have been sent Mr Powrie. 



You will therefore see that we have not sent out manures from our 

 factory under guarantee, but owing to a mistake made by our storekeeper 

 the old stock was sent instead of the new. 



The matter has been amicably settled with Mr Powrie, and we think yon 

 will see it is hardly fair to us that your Society should publish it. We 

 trust you will see it in this light. — We are, yours faithfully, 



Peentice Bros. 

 F. N. Menzies, Esq., 

 Secretary H. & A. Society, Edinburgh. Stoivmarket, 24th Feb. 1888. 



Dear Sir, — We have had a communication from the Carse of Gowrie 

 Analytical Society, referring to an analysis of a manure said to have been 

 drawn from manure of ours, delivered by an agent to a Mr Powrie, farmer. 

 I went and investigated the matter last June, as I happened to be in Scot- 

 land at the time, but I was abroad in Mauritius and Egypt when we were 



