Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee, 1888. 363 
"Wilton: March 6, 1888. 
" Dear Mr. Eawlence, — I did not write to the ' Farmers' Pure Cake 
Company,' as I was told each week that their ' representative ' was coming 
to see me on the subject. Last week he came to me in Salisbury, and 
acknowledged that the cake supplied (a sample of which you had analysed 
for me) was not at all what it should have been. The only excuse he could 
offer was that their foreman had been very ill and unable to attend to the 
work, and that his substitute had not taken the trouble to clean the seed as 
imported, but crushed it, and said nothing about its being very foul. This 
was a most lame excuse, I thought, and, in fact, not good enough to induce 
me to trust them again. They offered, if I would continue to deal with 
them, to make me an allowance on the one lot from which the sample was 
taken ; but this I declined to close with. As it would not be possible to 
jyrove anything against former lots, I shall simply leave them and deal 
elsewhere. . . . — Yours truly, " H. M. Holdsworth." 
" P.S. — The manager of the Farmers' Pure Cake Company told me they 
were going to change the name. I told him I thought they had certainly better 
do so, for if the ' farmers ' are ^mre, it is more than their cake is. 
"H." 
10. Mr. T. Barrett Lennard, of Horsford Manor, Norwich, 
sent for analysis on January 23, 1888, a sample of " sootigine." 
Dr. Voelcker's report was : — 
" January 27, 1888. 
Phosphate of lime .... 
•80 
Carbonate and sulphate of lime, kc. 
. 12-04 
Oxide of iron and alumina . 
. 7'80 
Insoluble silicious matter 
. 26-27 
100-00 
' Containing nitrogen 
•61 
Equal to ammonia 
-74 
" Over one quarter of this is sand. It has but slight value as a manure, 
is not worth carting any distance, and is quite three times too dear. 
" J. Augustus Voelckee." 
The price of this was 40s. per ton, free on rail in London, 
less 10 per cent, discount for cash, and the carriage cost 10s. 
a ton more. Five tons were purchased, the vendors being the 
New Carbolic Sanitary Company, Limited, Hackney Downs 
Station, London, E. 
11. Mr. J. M. Moubray, of Broom Court, Alcester, sent, on 
January 31, 1888, a sample of linseed-cake, of which the analysis 
was : — 
