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XXXV. 



Cattle-foods: Composition and feeding value. Frauds in the 

 sale of feeds. Legislation regarding cattle-foods. Hous- 

 ing and hygiene of domesticated animals. 



J. AUGUSTUS VOELCKER. Examination of Feed-stuffs. Annual 

 Report for 1909 of the Consulting Chemist. Journal of 

 the R. Agric. Soc. of England, Vol. 70, 1909, pp. 339-352. 



The Author notes with satisfaction that the practice of gross 

 adulteration of offals has now been put an end to. 



Several cases of adulteration of this kind have been followed 

 by prosecutions under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act in 

 different parts of the country, and heavy penalties against the prin- 

 cipal offenders were obtained. The R. Agric. Soc. took a very 

 prominent part in urging on these prosecutions. 



Of new materials the one that has come prominently into use 

 is Soya bean cake and it bids fair largely to take the place of other 

 feeding materials. 



The report contains much interesting information and research 

 on the chemistry of several food stuffs, manures, waters etc. among 

 which deserve to be mentioned the examination of numerous samples 

 of linseed cake for the possible presence of substances capable of 

 developing prussic acid. Only in one instance did the author find 

 this to occur. 



The cattle showed an unwillingness to take the cake, which 

 had a distinctly bitter taste and yielded 0.22% of prussic acid. 



ALFRED SMETHAM. Java Beans and other Feeding Stuffs that 

 may produce Prussic Acid. Some new Feeding Stuffs and 

 their relative Value as Cattle Foods. -- Liverpool, 1909, 

 p. ii. 



"Java Beans. In 1905 beans from Java were imported into 

 the United Kingdom in considerable quantities, but directly they 



