Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee, 1888. 371 
end ; wliat you ordered and what 1 ordered to be sent to you was dis- 
solved bones. I cautioned the foreman to be very careful with your order, 
as I knew the influence you had with people in the neighbourhood. I will 
at once allow you any e.xpense you have been put to in the matter, and 
will, if you wish, take the manure back, but would prefer, on account of the 
high cirriage, if you could use it for something, and pay ine what it is con- 
sidered worth. 
" I extremely regret this mistake, as I felt sure you would have becom.e 
a good customer of mine in time to come. — I am, yours faithfully, 
"qp- Samuel Smith, 
" W. R. Smith." 
The manure was eventually returned. 
9. Mr. W. Goodwin sent on May 4, 1888, on behalf of 
Captain J. H. Edwards-Heathcote, M.P., Apedale Estate, near 
Newcastle, Staffs., a sample of 4 tons, purchased, on April 28, as 
genuine raw bones, at Ql. per ton delivered, with 2s. Qd. per 
ton discount for a 4-ton lot and upwards. The vendors' quota- 
tion was for genuine raw bones, home-collected, guaranteed to 
contain 45 to 50 per cent, of phosphate and 4 to 5 per cent, of 
ammonia. The vendors were the Staffordshire Farmers' Supply 
Association, Limited (E. Chinn, Secretary), Seighford, Stafford. 
The analysis of this sample was : — 
Moisture . . , 
^ Organic matter . 
Phosphate of lime . 
Carbonate of lime, iScc. 
Insoluble silicious matter 
'May 16, 1888. 
14-19 
24-66 
52-24 
7-77 
1-14 
100-00 
2-41 
2-92 
' Containing nitrogen .... 
Equal to ammonia .... 
" This is not a sample of genuine raw bones, but a mixture of raw and 
boiled bone. " J. Augxtstus Voelckee." 
Upon making a complaint, Mr. Goodwin received the fol- 
lowing letter : — 
"The Staffoedshike Faemers' Supply Association, Limited. 
"MEMORANDUM. 
' Feom 
E. CHINN, Secretary, 
Seighford, 
Stafford. 
To 
« May 30, 1888. 
WILLIAM GOODWIN, Esq. 
" Deae Sir, — Thanks for your letter and copy of analysis of bones. 
The bones sent were bought as ^ jmre raw hones home collected,' and should 
contain 45 per cent, of tribasic phosphate of lime, and not less than 4 per 
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