161 
REPORT OF THE CONSULTING AND ACTING 
CONSULTING CHEMISTS FOR 1889 AND 1890. 
XoTwiTHSTAXDixG the large accession to the number of 3Iembers of 
the Society which took place in 1SS9. there were fewer samples sent 
to the Laboratory for examination than in the year previous. In 
1890 there was, however, a small increase in the number of samples 
sent by Members, as will be seen from the following comparative 
table :'— 
List of Analyses made for Members of the Society. 
Linseed-cates 
Undecorticated cotton-cakes 
D«KX>rticated cotton-cakes 
and meal 
Compound feeding-cakes 
Rice-meals . 
Cereals . 
Dried grains . 
Silage and hay 
Butter, milk, and cream 
Waters 
Superphosphates . 
Dissolved bones and compound 
artificial manures 
Bones and bone-meals 
Peruvian guano 
Fish guano . 
Shoddy 
Basic slag 
Sulphate of ammonia 
Nitrate of soda 
Potash salts . 
Refuse materials . 
Soils 
Miscellaneous 
1889 
sort 
73 
60 
5<j 
n 
IS 
1 
G 
117 
Analyses in connection with the Annual 
Country Meeting . . . . ^ 
Analyses in connection with the Wobum 1 
experiments and those of Local Agricul- > 
I 301 
107 
20 
28 
20 
15 
23 
54 
I'O 
.54 
41 
24 
],436 
60 
123 
tural Societies 
Total 
1.639 
18S0 
454 
95 
85 
35 
6 
15 
8 
o 
8 
143 
276 
76 
18 
21 
29 
22 
6-5 
11 
40 
12 
10 
1,447 
20 
79 
1.546 
Litiseed-caJcfs. — Feeding materials, and especially linseed-cakes, 
have, as usnal, formed a large proportion of the samples sent for ex- 
amination, and, indeed, it is well that this should be the case. The 
Chemical Committee s Quarterly Reports show markedlv the attempts 
of certain vendors to avoid committing themselves to a clear 
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