268 Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist. 
is made at Liverpool, and sold by tlie following guaranteed 
analysis, 
Moisture 5-92 
Oil and fatty matter 20-01 
* Albuminous compounds 13'87 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestiLle fibre 38"24 
Woody fibre (cellulose) 18"5G 
Mineral matter (ash) 3 "40 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 2-22 
it is, in reality, the dearer meal of the two. Palm-nut meal, con- 
taining 20 per cent, of oil and fatty matter, in my judgment is 
worth 3/. more per ton than the meal which was offered for sale 
at 4/. ; and as the price of the superior palm-nut meal was 6/. 10s. 
a' ton at Liverpool, the apparently cheaper meal, which was 
almost entirely destitute of oil and fatty matters, was, in reality, 
10s. per ton dearer than the more expensive meal. In explana- 
tion of the unusually low percentage of oil in the inferior meal, 
I may mention that a few years ago a process was discovered 
of extracting the oil from oily seeds, &c., by means of sulphide 
of carbon. This chemical operation appears to have been most 
successfully carried out in the case of the cheap palm-nut meal, 
which probably came from Hamburg, where works for the 
extraction of oil from oleaginous seeds have been in existence 
for some years past. 
Analyses made for Memhers of the Royal Agricultural Society, from 
December, 1871, to December, 1272. 
Guanos 42 
Superphosphates, dissolved bones, wheat manures,) 
and similar artificial manures J 
Bone dust .. .. 2G 
Nitrate of soda and suli)hate of ammonia . . . . 28 
Totash salts 7 
Soot 6 
Eefuse manures 27 
Marls, limestones, ironstones, and other minerals . . 23 
Soils 32 
Oilcakes 165 
Feeding meals 10 
Vegetable productions 15 
Whey and cheese 5 
Waters 53 
Sewage 2 
Examinations for poison 12 
Total 057 
