Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 533 
Eeport on Analysis of sample of Linseed-cake, received f rom John Wells, Esq., 
Booth Fe)-nj House, Eowden, July \Uh, 1872 {No. 3). 
The cake contains : — 
Moisture 12'05 
Oil 12-12 
* Albumenoids 23-13 
Indigestible fibre 18-75 
Digestible fibre, gum, mucilage, starch, &c 25-30 
Ash (mineral matter) 8-C5 
100-00 
* Containbg nitrogen 3-7 per cent. 
I The microscopic examination confirms the result of these numbers, that 
4bis cake is identical in composition with the others which I have analysed 
(Nos. 1 and 2) — the portion of crushed cake sent by rail, and the portiou of 
the dealer's sample cake described in my Keport of March 27th. 
(Signed) Thomas Faibley. 
27, Commercial-street, Leeds, 
3rd August, 1872. 
ilr. Mellor : We now put in the August sample. 
The Associate read the following Report : 
Report on Analysis of sample of Linseed-cake, received from John Wells, Esq., 
Booth Ferry House, Eowden, August \st, 1872. 
The sample was an entire cake, labelled at the opposite corners with the 
initials I.W. I.G. I have not found any known poison in the cake. The 
following is the result of the chemical analysis : — 
No. 4. 
Moisture 12-05 
Oil 12-12 
* Albumenoids 22-75 
Digestible fibre, gum, mucilage, starch, &c 25-74 
Indigestible fibre 18-70 
Ash (mineral matter) 8-64 
100-00 
* Contaming nitrogen 3-64 per cent. 
The ash contains 2-5 per cent, of sand, and about 4 per cent, of phosphoric 
acid, reckoned as tribasic phosphate of lime. The numbers coincide with those 
of the other three samples analysed. The microscopic examination shows the 
■same impurities ; the whole four samples furnished to me by Mr. Wells are 
therefore of the same cake : they are, — Xo. 1. Crushed cake from same lot as 
had been given to the cattle (sent by rail February, 1872). No. 2. Sample 
cake ; a portion broken off by me in Mr. Wells' presence from the maker's 
sample cake, March, 1872. Xo. 3. Portion of cake, not crushed, from a dif- 
ferent farm from No. 1, received July 19th, 1872. No. 4. Entire cake labelled 
^— as described above, received August 1st, 1872. 
(Signed) Thomas Fairley. 
27, Commercial Street, Leeds. 
August 5th, 1872. 
