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Agricultural Society, and to give instead a certain number of medals 
or other honours for distinguished students. New scholar.ships of 
more value than those now existing might be given for older 
students, without relinquishing those which we furnish for boys, and 
which are of considerable advantage. 
7. At these centres of education tlie analysis and examination of 
manures and feeding stuff's might be carried out ; research in 
physiology and other studies encouraged ; and a class of students 
and teachers educated who would be available for agricultural sides 
in county or other middle schools. From the same source would 
come peripatetic lecturers, and instructors for village classes and 
continuation schools. We should look forward at most centres to 
the establishment of dairy schools, both fixed and peripatetic, and 
to the provision of such lectures on rural life as might equally in- 
terest the farmers' and the labourers' children. 
8. It is not our province to enter into detail as to how such 
schemes could be carried out, but rather to suggest a general view 
of the subject, and to indicate that the Royal Agricultural Society 
and the County Councils may do more good in assisting existing 
institutions, and in aiding the establishment of new institutions of a 
similar character, than by attempting themselves to establish teaching 
institutions of their own. 
MoRETON, Chairman. 
February 3, 1891. 
[For the discussion in Council on the adoption of this Report, see 
page xxxiv of the Appendix.] 
QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE CHEMICAL 
COMMITTEE, 
March 1891. 
1. Mr. J. Bayley, of Willaston Hall, Xautwich, sent on May 25, 
1890, a sample of manure sold as "..Blood and Bone," price 71. 10s. 
piM- ton. Tlic following analysis and report was returned on 
June 2 : 
Moisture 21-30\ 
' Orpranic matter and water of combination . . 2278 ) 
Monobasic phosphate of lime .... 4-85 
Equal to tribasic phosphate of lime (boue pbos-"", I , „n nr» 
pbate) rendered soluble by acid / \' ^'^H ^^^'^^ 
Insoluble phosphates ll-SO 
Sulphate of lime, alkaline salts, &c. . . . 29-76 
Insoluble siliceous matter 10-01/ 
' Containing nitrogen . .... 1-77 
equal to ammonia ..... 215 
The manure contains some bone, but the price charged for it is altogether 
absurd. 
