298 Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist. 
Composition of Chinese Oil-Bean cake. 
Moisture 8 "30 
Oil 6-67 
•Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming matters) ., .. 39 '25 
Starch, gum, and digestible fibre 34 "95 
Woody fibre (cellulose) 5 • 03 
Mineral matters (ash) 5 "80 
100-00 
. * Containing nitrogen 6 • 28 
It will be seen that the Chinese oil-bean cake contains about 
6J per cent, of oil and a very high percentage of albuminous or 
flesh-forming matters. Probably this is the kind of beans from 
which the Chinese make a peculiar kind of cheese. 
Another novelty in feeding-stuffs is Liebig's prepared meat- 
powder, which has lately been recommended for pig-feeding. 
It is produced from the refuse meat-fibre, and parts of the carcase 
which are not used in the manufacture of extract of meat. In 
extracting the juice of meat, the larger proportion of the salts of 
potash contained in the meat pass into the extract, and the ex- 
hausted fibre becomes, to a great extent, indigestible. In order 
to remedy this defect, the late Baron Liebig advised the addi- 
tion of phosphate of potash to the refuse-fibre. The following 
are the results which I obtained in the analysis of a sample 
of meat-powder, prepared in accordance with Baron Liebig's 
suggestion : — 
Composition of a Sample of Prepared Meat Powder {^Refuse Meat from 
the Manufacture of Extract of Meat). 
Moisture 5 '57 
Fat 15-20 
*Nitrogenous organic matter (chiefly fibrine) .. .. 74-62 
f Mineral matter (ash) 4-61 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 11-77 
t Containing silica 0*55 
Phosphate of lime 1-01 
Alkaline salts 3-05 
Including: — potash -72 
chloride of sodium and . . - 99 
phosphoric acid 1 ' 34 
With regard to the chemistry of soils, I have to report that as 
many as 43 samples of soils — a larger number than in any pre- 
vious year — were sent to me by members of the Society^ in 
1875, for analysis and report. Amongst these were several 
