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to the already long list which vexes both farmer and analytical 
chemist. This is the use of the refuse from glucose manufactories. 
Attention was drawn to it by the receipt from an aiionymous source 
of a memorandum in the following terms : " We send you a small 
" sample of twenty tons of the saccharine meal just fresh made. It 
" is the palest and sweetest we have seen. The price is 37s. %d. per 
" ton, free delivered to steamer here, net cash, bags 2s. each. We 
" have had no complaints from the several seed-crushers who use it 
" regularly, of either their oil or cake, in fact .several have told us 
" voluntarily they have not had a single complaint from their cus- 
" tomers. We are told its composition is rice, sago, and tapioca." 
Subsequent to this, the presence of this material was detected in 
two linseed-cakes, a close examination of which was induced by the 
occurrence of an abnormally high percentage of mineral matter (ash), 
viz. between 10 and 11 per cent., instead of about 6 per cent., as is 
usual in linseed-cakes. This ash on analysis was found to consist 
largely of sulphate of lime. 
Cotton-cakes. — In the last report attention was drawn to a number 
of samples of undecorticated cotton-cake which were found to be 
stale or mouldy, and to the danger attending their use. Consider- 
able improvement in this respect has since been shown, but during 
the past season some cases of adulteration of cotton-cake with 
worthless materials have been referred to in the Quarterly Reports of 
the Committee. There are cases, also, of cotton-cake made from 
seed not propei-ly freed fi*om tlie cotton-wool. The danger of using 
such cakes is very great, inasmuch as the cotton is apt to collect in 
lumps and cause irritation and subsequent inflammation of the coats 
of the stomach. Undecorticated cotton-cake, althourrh bavins; — 
owing to its somewhat astringent properties — a special adaptability 
under certain circumstances, cannot compare either in feeding or 
manurial value with good decorticated cotton-cake. Experiments 
carried out at Woburn show the decided superiority of the latter in 
both respects. The great difficulty, however, is to obtain decorticated 
cotton-cake free from hard lumps, and in anything like a modefately 
soft condition. 
As regards meals, a word of caution is necessary. A case was 
recently brought to notice in which several animals had been 
poisoned by the use of a meal made from musty decorticated cotton- 
cake. One or two cases have occurred in which decorticated cotton- 
cake has been found to bo mixed with i-ice and rice-meal, ostensibly 
for the purpose of rendering it softer. This is well enough so long as 
the cake is sold under tlie clear understanding that it is a mixed 
cake, and if it be priced accordingly. When, liowever, it is merely 
described as " decorticated cotton-cake of a soft kind," and the 
price has been the full one of pure decorticated cotton cake, 
notwithstanding the admixture of the cheaper rice meal, the sale 
under such description should not be permitted. 
Hemp-cake, — A sample of this gave on analysis : — 
