334 Annual Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1884. 
trade, and the consequent low price of sugar, has caused sugar 
and molasses to be occasionally employed as fattening agents, 
or rather for the purpose of rendering coarse straw-chaff, &c., 
more palatable. Linseed having also become cheaper, the 
crushed seed has been, in the absence of succulent food, used 
with advantage under some circumstances. 
Superphosphates, Artificial Manures, Sfc. — As an instance of 
the varying value of manures, and the necessity of buying 
according to guaranteed analysis, I give the following case. 
A member of the Society sent me for analysis four samples of 
manure, which I found to contain 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
No. 1. 
Water 
Monobasic phosphate of lime 
(Equal to tribasic phosphate") 
16-95 
21-28 
14-04 
(21-74) 
16-45 
26-07 
12-27 
(19-21) 
14-35 
29-57 
10-87 
(17-21) 
20-50 
16-66 
1 7-05 
Phosphate 
of lime. 
Insoluble phosphates . . 
Sulphate of lime, &c 
Insoluble siliceous matter . . 
8-07 
34-68 
4-98 
10-70 
29-96 
4-55 
6-80 
32-31 
6-10 
5-16 
17-77 
32-86 
Oxide of 
iron and 
alumina. 
Sulphate of 
lime, &c. 
100-00 
100-00 
100 00 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen .. 
Equal to ammonia 
•65 
-79 
-83 
1-01 
1-20 
1-45 
1-01 
1-22 
The prices at which these were sold were : — 
No. 1. 4Z. 10s. per ton, my estimate after analysis being 11. 16s. per ton. 
No. 2. U. 5s. „ „ „ 5Z. 5s. 6d ^, 
No. 3. 5?. 5s. „ „ „ 6s. „ 
No. 4. 11. 10s. „ „ „ 5/. Is. „ 
Thus, while two were sold at reasonable prices, the other two 
were about 50s, each too dear. 
Apple Juice.- — The following is the composition of three 
samples of apple-juice preserved by a member of the Society as 
a non-alcoholic bt-verage : — 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
86-42 
84-58 
87 19 
•05 
3- 55 
•15 
13-18 
11-54 
12 -.34 
•35 
■33 
-32 
100-00 
100 00 
100-00 
