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The following analysis of palm-nut meal shows the necessity 
of caution in purchasing it : — 
Moisture 8-58 
Oil 2-36 
♦Albuminous compouiuls 18-87 
Digestible fibre, &e 48-15 
Woody fibre 18-00 
Mineral matter -t ■ 04 
100-00 
* Coutainiiig nitrogen 3-02 
In this sample almost the whole of the oil originally in the 
meal has been extracted by chemical means. Good palm-nut 
meal has about 12 per cent, of oil, which is its most valuable 
ingredient. 
Malted Wheat. — A member of the Society sent me a sample 
of this, the analysis of which I give side by side with one of 
malted barley, as lately used in the Woburn experiments : — 
Water 
Oil 
♦Albuminous compounds 
Starch, sugar, &c. 
Woody fibre 
Mineral matter . . 
* Containing nitrogen 
MaltPil 
Harley. 
9-G8 
9-35 
1-30 
1-97 
10-37 
11-37 
73-2B 
68-27 
2-70 
5-53 
2-69 
3-51 
100-00 
100-00 
1-66 
1-82 
As will be seen, the difference between these is small. 
Manures. — The past year has witnessed a considerable fall in 
the prices of manures generally, but in none has the fall been so 
marked as in the case of sulphate of ammonia. At the time the 
last Annual Report was issued, sulphate of ammonia was quoted 
at about 14Z. per ton, and nitrate of soda at 10/. ; but at the 
present time, while nitrate of soda has advanced to IIZ. or more 
per ton, sulphate of ammonia has fallen to just about the same 
price. This change has arisen from the restricted output of 
nitrate of soda, and the increasing sources of supply of sul- 
phate of ammonia. That under these circumstances sulphate of 
ammonia, which in fact contains a larger percentage of nitro- 
gen than nitrate of soda, is considerably the cheaper source of 
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