418 FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1893. [March 1896, 



THE FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1893. 



According to the reports received by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893, was put into 

 operation, in 1895, in twenty- seven counties and one borough in 

 England, in five counties in Wales, and in twenty-one counties 

 in Scotland. 



The total number of samples analysed under the Act in Great 

 Britain during the year was 615, oF which 411 were samples of 

 fertilisers, and 204 of feeding stuffs. The number of samples 

 analysed in England, Wales, and Scotland, respectively, may be 

 seen in the following table : — 





Number 

 of Counties 

 reporting 

 Analyses. 



Number of Samples analysed. 





Fertilisers. 



Feeding 

 Stuffs. 



Total. 



England, counties 

 „ borouglis 

 Wales, counties - - - 

 ■ Scotland „ - 



27 

 1 

 5 



21 



138 

 19 

 15 



239 



97 

 IG 

 8 



83 



235 

 35 

 23 



322 



Great Britain 



54 



411 



204 



615 



The number of samples analysed during each of the four 

 quarters of the j^ear was as follows : — 





Fertilisers. 



Feeding Stuffs. 



Quarter. 





Quarter. 





1st. 



2nd. 



3rd. 



4th. 



1st. 



2nd. 



3rd. 



4th. 



.England, counties 



27 



80 



14 



17 



34 



19 



14 



SO 



„ boroughs 



2 



11 



4 



2 



7 



3 



2 



4 



Wales, counties - 



6 







9 



2 





1 





Scotland „ 



57 



170 



6 



6 



21 



29 



12 



21 



Great Britain 



92 



261 



24 



34 



64 



51 



29 



60 



It has not been considered desirable to institute a compaiison 

 between the results for 1895 and those for the preceding year, 

 as many of the district analysts were not appointed until the 

 spring of 1894, and consequently the Act was not put into 

 operation in a number of counties until the latter half of that 

 year. It may be observed, however, that the total number of 

 samples analysed under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act 

 in 1894 in Great Britain was 444, comprising 317 of fertilisers 

 and 127 of feeding stuffs. 



The following table shows the number of samples analysed in 

 each county in which analyses were made : — 



