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“ A ” was, practically, nothing but molasses and earth- 
nut cake meal. “ B ” was simply a mixture of molasses and 
bran. 
5. Meat Meal — for pigs. 
Analyses of samples of two deliveries of meat meal, used as 
food for pigs, gave the following results : — 
A 
B 
Moisture .... 
9-94 
8-88 
Fat 
. 21-55 
9-62 
’Organic matter . 
. . 64-76 
80-45 
Mineral matters (ash) . 
3-75 
1-05 
100-00 100-00 
’Containing nitrogen .... 10-46 13-03 
“ A ” cost 18s. per cwt., delivei-ed, and “ B ” 13.s. M. per 
cwt. While, if mixed with other foods, these might be use- 
fully employed for pig-feeding, their highly nitrogenous char- 
acter would oblige their being used with caution. Further, the 
prices of them, more especially of “ A,” are much too high. 
B. Fertilisers. 
The supply of mineral superphosi)hate of lime, as of the 
commoner manufactured fertilisers, has been of quite a satis- 
factory character, and I have had nothing to report advei-se to 
these. It is however, in the matter of compound manures, 
often made from waste materials, that there is scojte, despite 
the Fertilisers and Feeding Stutfs Act, for selling these materials 
at prices far beyond their real A'alue. The Act does not touch 
these, for they are sold as required, by guaranteed analysis, but 
there is no security that the cost is commensurate with the 
value. In regard to Basic Slag it has also to be mentioned 
that, notwithstanding the Act and its requirement that the 
exact percentage of phosphate contained shall be guaranteed, 
it is not unusual still to see invoices set out in some such form 
as the following : — “ guaranteed to contain 38 — 45 per cent, of 
phosphates.” Such a form of guarantee is quite contrary to 
the Act, for it allows of a margin of 7 per cent, whereas the 
Act allows* only 2 per cent. Purchasers I’eceiving invoices set 
out thus should return them and insist on having them set oiit 
in accordance with the Act. 
1. Bone Meal. 
A purchase made under the name of “ Continental Bone 
Meal ” was found, on analysis, to have the following composi- 
tion : — 
