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part of the manure was then in the ground. This being so, it was agreed 
that I should pay the price put upon it by Dr. Voelcker, and so end the 
matter. As I believe this to have been purely a mistake, I must beg that if 
notice of this transaction appears in the ' Journal of the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England,' no names may be mentioned. In proof of it being my 
candid opinion that the manure sent to me was a mistake, I may say that it 
is my intention to purchase my turnip manure for this season from the 
same firm. 
" Yours faithfully, 
" H. M. Jenkins, Esq., " Jos. Thompson. 
12, Hanover Square, London, W." 
7. The following case was referred to Dr. Voelcker bj Mr. 
Sanday, of Wensley House, Bedale, Yorkshire : — 
Milk- Substitute for Rearing Calves and Pigs. 
A cream-coloured meal, sold at 35^. per cwt, as a milk-substi- 
tute for rearing calves and pigs, and described in the handbills 
as a preparation consisting of " highly nutritious and flesh- 
forming substances " and " the most perfect soluble food in the 
world," on analysis was found to have the following compo- 
sition : — 
Moisture 20-35 
Oil -40 
*Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming matters) 2 • 87 
Starch and digestible fibre 74*85 
Woody fibre (cellulose) 1-03 
Mineral matter (ash) -50 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen -40 
The meal appeared to have been kept in a rather damp place, 
for it contained more moisture than ought to be present in meal. 
It consisted almost entirely of starch — probably potato-starch — 
coloured slightly yellowish. It was very poor in nitrogenous or 
flesh-forming matters in which milk abounds, and was a most 
unsuitable substitute for milk in rearing calves and pigs. 
The following is a copy of the handbill : — - 
"MILK SUBSTITUTE, 
FOK BEARING CALVES AND PIGS, 
Manufactured only by 
SPOUXCER AND SONS, GAINSBORO'. 
" This preparation consists of highly nutritious and flesh-forming sub- 
stances, and is the most perfect soluble food in the world. 
" Almost every farmer admits that if his supply of milk were greater, he 
would rear more calves and pigs, and thus increase the number of his stock. 
"It is an acknowledged fact that if a calf be given new milk until it is a 
fortnight old it can be well and properly reared on milk-substitute without 
the use of skimmed milk. 
