340 Annual Chemical Ueport. 
which is often sold as pig's food, if containing, like a sample 
recently analysed by me, scarcely any flour, and consisting 
mainly of the indigestible outer husk of rice ground down fine 
may endanger the health and life of the pigs fed upon it. This 
sample contained in 100 parts: — 
Moisture 7-80 
Oil 1-45 
*Albuiniuous compounds (flesh-forming matters) 3'06 
S'tarcli or diuestiblc fibre 21-77 
Woody fibre^ (cellulose) 50-34 
tMiueral matter (ash) 15-58 
100-00 
* Containiug nitrogen '49 
t Containing silica 1.3"58 
This refuse although not quite so bad as the preceding artificial 
meal, is not much better as a feeding material than fine saw- 
dust and ground flints. 
Analyses made for Members of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
December, 1866, to December, 1867. 
Guanos 30 
Superphosphates and similar artificial manures .. 63 
Kitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia .. .. 16 
Eefuse manures 29 
Bone-dust 11 
Limestones, marls, and other minerals .. .. 53 
Soils 18 
Waters 30 
Oilcakes (52 
Pce.liiiu meals, and vegetable productions .. ., 19 
1 iii iii r's small beer (clink) 4 
Exaiij ilia Lions for poison .. ..' G 
341 
Laboraiortj, 11, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street, E.C. 
March, 1868. 
XXIV. — Rise and Proyress of the Leicester Breed of Slieep. 
By Henry H. Dixon. 
Prize Essay. 
" Brave men lived before Agamemnon," and Leicestershire had 
good sheep before Bakewell's day. Two hundred years ago, " the 
husbandman's acre staff, and the shepherd's hook were in this 
county in state, and commanded manufactures to observe their 
distance from them." Its famous Rothley Plain was a rabbit- 
