816 Agricultural Journal of Victoria. 



STOCK FOODS. 

 These included : — 



112 samples of miscellaneous fodders and fodder plants 

 6 ,, silage 



7 



1 



4 



18 



148 



bran 

 pollard 

 meals 

 cakes 



MINERAL DEPOSITS. 



These included ; — 



3 samples of marl 



3 ,, pipeclay 



8 ,, supposed phosphatic deposit 



2 ,, limestone 



16 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



40 



Manures. 



The number of manures analysed considerably exceeds that of the 

 preceding year. This is partly due to the system, initiated for the 

 first time last year, of sending out field officers to collect samples on 

 the farm. During the course of this work, the discovery was made 

 by the field officers that vendors had, in most cases, failed to comply 

 with the provisions of the Manure Act, in not providing an invoice 

 certificate at the time of sale. Prosecutions were instituted against 

 a number of vendors for this omission in different centres, and fines 

 inflicted. It is satisfactory, however, to find that the failure to pro- 

 vide a certificate was not apparently the outcome of any intention to 

 defraud, as analysis in nearly all cases revealed a high standard of 

 quality. In the cases where invoice certificates had been provided, 

 the figures of analysis exceeded, in most cases, the invoice guaranty. 



The following tables contain the results of the examination of 70 

 samples of different kinds collected by the officers. It will be 

 noticed that the moisture percentage is, in a few cases, rather low, 

 due probably to losses after leaving the store, and this naturally 

 would show a higher content of the fertilizing ingredient, than would 

 be given in the presence of the original moisture. 



