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Husk in Decorticated Cotton Cake, [august, 



and, in the opinion of the Committee, their employment should 

 be prohibited by the Legislature. 



M arking of Foreign Hops. — Foreign hops are for the most part 

 unmarked, whereas English hops are required to be marked, 

 in accordance with the Act of 1866, and the Committee recom- 

 mend that such provisions of this Act as can be made applicable 

 to imported hops should be so applied. Hops grown abroad 

 would then not be admissible into ports of the United Kingdom,, 

 unless such conditions were complied with. 



Information for Growers. — The report concludes with a recom- 

 mendation that additional information should be placed at 

 the disposal of the industry by the Board of Agriculture. 



The attention of the Board has been called to a number of 

 cases in which the husk and woolly fibre in decorticated cotton 

 cake has been found to be as much as 

 Husk and Woolly 15 per cent. Formerly it was not usual 

 Matter in Decorticated to find more than 5 per cent, of such 

 Cotton Cake. substances in decorticated cotton cake, 

 but the term decorticated is now not 

 uncommonly applied to an article containing a much higher 

 percentage. 



The question how far sellers are justified in applying the 

 term decorticated to a cake which contains so much husk 

 and woolly fibre is one of considerable difficulty, nor will it 

 be possible in existing circumstances to say what is the limit 

 of husk and woolly fibre which may be legally present in an 

 article sold as decorticated cotton cake. In view of the un- 

 certainty of the meaning of the term " decorticated " in this 

 connection, purchasers of decorticated cotton cake should 

 insist on a written statement from the seller as to the amount 

 of husk and woolly fibre it contains. 



In this connection it may be of interest to give a brief 

 description of the method of manufacturing this class of 

 cake.* 



The cotton seed is first ginned in the process of obtaining 

 the lint for cotton manufacture, the ginned seed being then 



* See U.S. Dept. of Agric. Office of Experiment Stations, Bulletin No. m 

 The Cotton Plant. 



