316 Quarterly Bejjorts of the Chemical Committee^ 1887. 
T. MiLLHOtrsE TO Me. Metnell. 
" March 3, 1887. 
" I have had a letter from the Company in which they say the cost of the 
cake to them is 71. 7s. 6d. per ton. I will leave it in your hands to pay what 
you think right." 
Me. T. Meynell to T. Millhottse. 
" March 10, 1887. 
" In reference to your letter of the 3rd instant, leaving iii my hands the 
question of payment for the adulterated meal, I have advised Sir William 
Dyke to pay you for the 2 tons I5 cwt. used at the rate of 61. 5s. per ton, 
and enclose accordingly his cheque for 121. 17s. 6d. and shall be obliged by 
your receipt in full. Had the cake been simply adulterated with locust bean, 
my task in deciding the amount Sir William might be advised to pay would 
have been more simple, but the large admixture of injurious substances is 
not so easily dealt with." 
No letter was sent with the receipt, of which the following 
is a copy : — 
" HoRTON KiEBY Flour Mills. 
" The Lullingstone Estate. 
" To T. MiLLHOUSE, Corn, Linseed-cake, and Seed Merchant. 
1887. 
January 20, — 4 tons linseed-cake £32 10 0 
Cr. by 383-cwt. returned . , . £15 14 9 
Cheque 12 17 10 
Tare 3 17 5 
£.32 10 0 
" Received payment as above, March 11, 1887. T. Millhocse." 
July, 1887. 
The Committee had before them a case, typical of many 
which have happened of late, in which the purchaser, a member 
of the Society, had followed the recommendations issued by the 
Society — viz., in the case of linseed-cakes, to insist on having the 
word " pure " inserted on the invoice ; but in which the inten- 
tion had manifestly been to evade the guarantee by the insertion 
of a qualifying sign, word, letter, or letters preceding " pure."' 
It is maintained by some makers and dealers that the use 
of such qualifying prefix does not necessarily carry with it the 
guarantee of purity, but merely specifies a particular brand or 
quality of cake. 
The Committee are conscious of the fact that were these 
qualifying prefixes generally accepted by the trade as bearing 
such interpretation, great injury v/ould be caused both to the 
agricultural interest and to honourable manufacturers of and 
dealers in cakes. 
The Committee, therefore, propose in future to take cogni- 
