376 FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 189?. [March 1897 



THE FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1893. 



Reports received by the Board of Agriculture show that 

 samples were analysed under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs 

 Act, 1893, in 54 counties or county boroughs during the year 

 1896, the total number of samples analysed having been 797, of 

 which 552 were fertilisers and 245 feeding stuffs. 



As District Agricultural Analysts were appointed for all 

 counties (with one exception) in 1894, two complete years 

 have now elapsed since the Act has been in full operation 

 throughout the country. A comparison between 1896 and 

 1895 is therefore possible. It appears that during 1896 there 

 was an increase of 182 — 141 fertilisers and 41 feeding stuffs — 

 in the total number of samples analysed. The increase has been 

 greatest in England. In 1895 more samples were analysed in 

 Scotland than in the former country, but during the past year 

 more than half the analyses were made in England and Wales. 



The comparison between 1896 and 1895 for the whole 

 country stands as follows : — 





Number of 

 Counties reporting 

 Analyses. 



Total Number 

 of Samples analysed. 



1896. 



1895. 



1896. 



1895. 



England, counties 

 ., boroughs 



Wales, counties 

 Scotland, counties 



Great Britain 



26 

 3 

 5 



20 



27 

 1 

 5 



21* 



362 

 35 

 22 



378 



235 

 35 



23 

 322 



54 



54 



797 



615 



The number of analyses made in each of the four quarters 

 of 1896 may be shown as under : — 





Fertilisers. 





Feedin 



? Stuffs. 





Quarter. 





Quarter. 





1st. 



2nd. 



3rd. 



4th. 



1st. 



2nd. 



3rd. 



4th. 



England, counties 



73 



102 



7 



28 



40 



28 



40 



44 



„ boroughs 



5 



5 



1 



3 



6 



2 



5 



8 



Wales, counties - 



5 



-1 





13 



. 2 







1 



Scotland, counties 



85 



205 



12 



7 



24 



9 



16 



20 



Great Britain 



168 



313 



20 



5L 



72 



39 



61 



73 



