Composition and Nutritive Value of Cotton-cake. 13 



This report leaves no doubt about the cause of death. The 

 distension of the first bowels was evidently caused by cotton- 

 husks, which, I am informed, were pressed so tightly into the 

 bowel as to give externally the appearance of stones. 



On examining Mr. Fryer's cotton-cake, I found it to contain 

 more than half its weight of cotton-husk. I am inclined to think 

 that this cake was prepared by pressing the refuse from the 

 manufacture of decorticated cotton-cake with a small quantity of 

 cotton-seed. 



Cakes similar to that forwarded by Mr. Fryer have been 

 lately sent to me for examination. I am glad to have reported 

 them unfit for feeding purposes, having suspected the hard husks 

 of common cotton-cake as likely to do harm. Mr. Fryer's case 

 shows that my suspicion was not altogether imaginary, and con- 

 firms the opinion expressed above respecting the feeding value of 

 ordinary cotton-cake. 



Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 

 December, 1858. 



