638 Quarterly Report of the Chemical Committee, July 1890. 
at the station and the truck was required. . . . Two of my neighbours, 
whose names I am willing to produce, found the same difficulty in getting 
their stock to eat the cake, and this set me thinking. Had I used the 
R.A.S.E. forms, I should have been all right. 
On July 10 Mr. lies wrote to the Society's Chemist : — 
"When I showed Snowsell your verdict, he altogether scoffed at it, 
remarking that he had never believed in you, and that Professor Kinch was 
the only reliable analyst. Having such perfect faith in your verdict, and 
being willing to allow him to hang himself with his own rope, I sent a 
portion of the same cake to Professor Kinch, with the result that his figures 
correspond entirely with your own, and his foot-note is almost verbatim the 
same as yours. 
Mr. lies complained about the cake, and the following correspon- 
dence ensued : — 
Alex. lies, Jr., Esq., The Park Farm, 
Fairford, Gloucestershire. Hull: July 8, 1890. 
Dear Sir, — You have right to complain if you bought the cakes as best 
quality, and we have told Mr. Snowsell this, as you will see by the enclosed 
copies of letters we have written to him. 
We are always pressing dealers to push the Special 95 Per Cent., but 
many consumers will not give the price, hence we have to make second-class 
cake 30s. per ton under the highest in price and quality. 
May we send you some of the /b> Special ? You will then see the differ- 
ence. 
We trust that you will exonerate us from all blame ; as the servants of 
the consumer we have to make what he requires, but we always recommend 
the highest quality. If you have been deceived it is not by us ; and as you 
will see by the letters, we have frankly expressed our views, and that you 
ought to have been told that 30s. a ton is a geeat difference in cakes at 
present values, and means a correspondingly geeat difference in quality.— 
Yours truly, Walker & Smith, Limited. 
per H. F. S. 
Copy — Letters 
From Walker and Smith, Oil Mills, Hull, » 
to Jas. Snowsell, Cirencester. June C, 1800. 
Dear Sir, — You know very well that our <b> Special 95 Per Cent, is 
30s. dearer and 30s. better than the <b^ and so does every dealer in our 
books. 
To reduce 95 per cent, cakes 30s. a ton it stands to common sense that 
either rubbish must be put in the seed or admixture added. We prefer the 
latter, and if you have sold it as " Best," knowing that it is 30s. under the 
price and quality of our best quality, you are to blame, and wo decline to 
have any blame put on us. "We are making large quantities of this pake; 
it is of good value at the money, and those farmers who won't go to the prico of 
finest cake cannot do better than buy <(b>. 
We shall be glad to know whether we are to send the 4 tons ordered to 
Bourton ; it will be our usual quality, — Yours truly, 
pp. Walker & Smith. 
11. F. Smith. 
