158 Quarterly Report of the Chemical Committee, March, 1891. 
Repeated applications for further particulars of the transaction 
failed to elicit any reply from ^Ix. Bayley. 
2. Mr. E. F. Maunder, of Crichel, Wimbome, sent on November 
20, 1890, a sample of linseed-cake -which was offered to him at 8?. 
per ton. The follo^v-ing analysis and report -was returned on 
November 27 : 
Moisture 13-o0 
Oil 901 
* Albuminous compounds (flesh-fonning matters) . 26-o0 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible fibre . . . 31-34 
AVoodv fibre (cellulose) 11 '10 
^ Mineral matter (ash) S oS- 
' Containing nitrogen . . . .4-24 
- Including sand . . . . .3-55 
The cake is a very impure one, containing over 3^ per cent, of sand and 
a considerable admisture of foreign seed, and some earth-nut husk. 
In reply to inquiries !Mr. Maunder wrote as foUows : 
December 8, 1890. 
Deae Sib, — lie linseed cake 1437. I have seen the party from ■whom 
I obtained the cake of ■which I sent you a sample. The cake was sent me 
by an error, as he had two lots come in, and his man loaded my ■wagon 
from the ■wrong lot : this is sold as an impure cake at 71. os. per ton, and ia 
manufactured in Hull. — I am, yours truly, 
Edwet F. Mattstdeb. 
Dr. Toelcker. 
An allowance was subsequently made to the purchaser. 
100-00 
3. Mr. Philip Ascroft, of Eufford, near Ormskirk, sent on 
December 3, 1890, a sample of manure, 25 tons of which he had 
bought as " Blood and Bone Manure," price 3/. per ton on rail. 
The following analysis and report was returned on Decem- 
ber 2 : 
Moisture 15-70\ 
1 Organic matter 38-50 
Phosphate of Ume 3-21 J- 100-00 
Oxide of iron, alumina, i^c 291 4 j 
Sand 13-45j 
' Containing nitrogen 2'75 
equal to ammonia 3 34 
The manure called •• Blood and Bone Manure." which you say you bought 
as "pure," appears to be mere refuse bone and hair material mixed with 
some blocfd. The bone is chiefly conspicuous by its absence. It is of 
course absurd to describe such a material as " pure " blood and bone manure ; 
it is neither pure blood nor pure bone. As a rule, manures of this description 
are sold at prices very much in advance of their actual value. 
Mr. Ascroft wrote, on December 1-5, to say that, as he had 
merely purchased according to a sample handed to him at the time, 
he had no claim against the vendor. 
