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vary much ; some are much better than others, and some are 
little more than husk and wool, hilt the purchaser takes his 
chance of this ! Nor can I say that the quality of Bombay 
cotton cakes has, in general, improved, but rather the reverse. 
Samples I have had continue to show excessive sand and dirt, 
and many have very excessive amounts of wool. Instances are 
the following : — 
A 
B 
C 
Moisture .... 
13-30 
11-64 
11-73 
Oil . , . 
* Albuminous compounds(flesh- 
4-13 
4-43 
6-29 
forming matters) . _ . 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible 
20T3 
19-31 
17-62 
fibre ..... 
2T31 
37-51 
34-22 
Woody fibre (cellulose) 
35-66 
20-99 
26-20 
’Mineral matter (ash) . 
5-57 
6-12 
3-94 
-- 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
’ Containing nitrogen 
3-22 
3-09 
2-82 
’ Including sand 
2-19 
1-20 
0-10 
“ A ” cost \l. 12s. 6(f. per ton. 
It was* 
a very 
hard cake 
contained much wool ; the percentage of woody fibre (35'56), 
as shown in the analysis, is exceptionally high, and the sand 
(2’19) also very excessive. “ B ” cost 4Z. 10s. per ton, and was 
also very woolly. “ C ” was described as “ Kibbled Cotton 
cake.” It cost 4Z. 18s. 9<i. per ton, delivered, and though in 
some respects — notably the oil — the analysis reads well, the 
cake is very poor in nitrogen, and, on sifting it after breaking it 
up, no less than 75 per cent, of it was found to consist of husk 
and wool. 
Decorticated cotton cake has, as usual, been almost impos- 
sible to get of nice soft quality, and in many instances it has 
not been as well decorticated as it should be. The home-made 
variety has been used to some extent, but that, too, has not been 
of really high class. 
Pieces of Metal in Bomharj Cotton Cake. 
In a consignment of three tons of Bombay cotton cake sent 
to a member of the Society there were noticed to be pieces of 
metal, some of considerable size. The purchaser had the whole 
delivery carefully broken up and from the three tons he 
extracted no less than .342 pieces of metal, these consisting of a 
miscellaneous collection of fiattened nails, iron bolts and nuts, 
strips of steel (as if they had come from broken machinery), 
hair pins, and the like. It is needless to say that had the 
presence of this in the cake not been noticed serious loss of 
stock would inevitably have occurred. This would have been 
an interesting case under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 
