374 Quarterly Beports of the Chemical Committee, 1888. 
Bourne of Atherstone. The invoice describes it as " 1 ton 
95 % Linseed Cake," and the cake was branded " W. H. & W." 
Dr. Voelcker's report was : — 
"July i, 1888. 
Moisture 12-12 
Oil 11-20 
* Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming matters) . . 26-44 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible fibre .... 31'5I 
"Woody fibre (cellulose) 9-80 
* Mineral matter (ash) . •••»«. 8-93 
100-00 
' Containing nitrogen 4*23 
- Including sand , • • . . 3-54 
"Not pure, nor 95 per cent, pure, or anything like it. 
" J. AtTGUSTirS VOELCKER." 
Mr. Wolferstan stated that since the passing of the Mer- 
chandise Marks Act Mr. Bourne would not invoice his cakes 
as "Pure," but described the cake as " 95 per cent." On getting 
a previous lot to the one in question, Mr. Wolferstan had 
noticed that it was invoiced " Special," and not " 95 per cent.," 
whereupon he wrote to Mr. Bourne, and received the following 
answer : — 
"Atherstone: June 11, 1888. 
"Deak Sik, — Until I received your letter, I was not aware that my 
clerk had made any change in the mode of invoicing it. The 95 per cent, is 
very frequently called ' special, 'and is sometimes invoiced as such, but it is the 
same cake that you have been having, and should have been invoiced as usual 
'guaranteed 95 per cent^ I am annoyed that the alteration should have been 
made, and have cautioned my clerk as to the future. You may rely that I 
send you nothing but what I can guarantee 95 per cent. I am sorry you 
hare had the trouble of writing. — Yours truly, " J. K. Botjene." 
" F. S. P. Wolferstan, Esq." 
Subsequent to the receipt of the analysis on July 5, the 
following letters j^assed : — 
"Atherstone : July 11, 1888. 
" Dear Sik, — On calling over my books as I do eachhalf year (Christmas 
and Midsummer), I regret to find that there was a mistake in the last lot of cake 
eent you, and that you had the ordinary quality instead of the 95 per cent. 
The way in which the mistake arose was this: I asked your bailiff whether 
he could do with a ton of linseed-cake, as I had one at Tamworth Station — 
it having been ordered up with some other to make up a 4-ton load. I 
never gave it a thought about its being the ordinary quality, and when I 
got home told my clerk to book you a ton of linseed-cake. This was done, 
and booked to you as 95 per cent, cake, which you always now have. I now 
discover the mistake, and am very sorrv it should have occurred. I credit 
your account with H. Cs., which is the difference the crushers make between 
their ordinary quality and their 95 per cent. : or if you have any of it left, I 
shall be very hajjpy to change it for you. — Yours truly, 
" F. S. P. AVolferstan, Esq." ' " " J. K. BoiTRNE." 
