276 FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1893. [March 1895i 



II. -THE FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS 

 ACT, 1893. 



By the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893, it is provided^ 

 that the district analysts appointed under the Act by county 

 councils and by councils of county boroughs shall report to 

 the Board of Agriculture as they direct the results of any 

 analyses made by them in pursuance of the Act. 



In a circular (A ^) issued on March 2nd, 1894, the Board 

 accordingly requested the several local authorities in Great 

 Britain to instruct their district analysts to furnish to the Board 

 quarterly reports, made up to the last day of March, June, 

 September, aod December respectively in each year, upon the 

 analyses of (1) fertilisers and (2) feeding stuffs made by them. 



The total number of analyses made under the Act in Great 

 Britain during the twelve months ended December 31, 1894, as 

 reported by the district analysts, was 444, comprising 317 

 of fertilisers and 127 of feeding stuffs. The number of samples 

 analysed in England, Wales, and Scotland respectively is shown 

 in the following table : — 





Number of Samples analysed. 





Fertilisers. 



Feeding Stuffs. 



Total. 



England, counties 

 „ boroughs 

 Wales - - - - 

 Scotland 



146 

 4 



6 



161 



67 

 7 



53 



213 

 11 



6 



214 



Great Britain - 



317 



127 



444 



Taking the reports for the four quarters of the year, the num- 

 ber of analyses made in the three countries was as shown below : — 





Fertilisers. 



Feeding Stuffs. 



1st. 



2nd. 



3rd. 



4tl!. 



1st. 



2nd. 



3rd. 



- 



4th. 



England, counties 



3 



110 



24 



9 



2 



12 



23 



30 



„ boroughs 





2 





2 









7 



"Wales ... 





1 





5 











Scotland - 



30 



123 



4 



4 



15 



14 



13 



11 



Great Britain - 



33 



236 



28 



20 



17 



26 



36 



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The extent to which the Act was put into operation in 1894 

 in the counties of England, Wales, and Scotland may be seen 

 from the following statement, which shows the counties in 

 which analyses were made, and the number of samples of each 

 class analysed. 



