XXXIV 
Monthly  Council,  March  2,  1904. 
Miscellaneous. 
The  seal  of  the  Society  was  author- 
ised to  be  affixed  to  a new  certificate 
of  Harewood  House  stock,  and  to  a 
form  of  proxy  to  the  Secretary  to 
vote  at  meetings  of  Park  Royal 
Limited,  during  the  forthcoming  year, 
in  respect  of  the  14,993  shares  of  that 
Company,  registered  in  the  corporate 
name  of  the  Society.  A statement 
as  to  the  capital  expenditure  on  the 
Park  Royal  estate  was  laid  upon  the 
table. 
WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  2,  1904. 
THE  EARL  OF  DERBY,  K.G.  (PRESIDENT),  IN  THE  CHAIR. 
Present : 
TruMees. — Colonel  Sir  Nigel  Kings- 
cote,  G.C.V.O.,  K.C.B.,  Sir  John  H. 
Thorold,  Bart. 
Vice  - Presidents.  — H.R.H.  Prince 
Christian,  K.G.,  the  Earl  of  Fever- 
sham,  the  Earl  of  Jersey,  G.C.B..  the 
Hon.  Cecil  T.  Parker,  Mr.  G.  H.  Sanday, 
Sir  Jacob  Wilson. 
Other  Members  of  Council.- — Mr. 
Alfred  Ashworth,  Mr.  R.  C.  Assheton, 
Mr.  J.  Bowen-Jones,  Mr.  F.  S.  W. 
Cornwallis,  Mr.  Percy  Crutchley, 
Lt.-Col.  J.  F.  Curtis-Hayward,  Mr. 
Alfred  E.  W.  Darby,  the  Hon.  A.  E. 
Fellowes,  M.P.,  Mr.  W.  Frankish,  Mr. 
R.  M.  Greaves,  Mr.  W.  Harrison,  Mr. 
R.  W.  Hobbs,  Mr.  James  Hornsby, 
Capt.  W.  S.  B.  Levett,  Mr.  Joseph 
Martin,  Mr.  T.  H.  Miller,  Mr.  W.  A. 
Prout,  Mr.  J.  E.  Ransome,  Mr.  F. 
Reynard,  Mr.  E.  W.  Shackle,  Mr.  A. 
J.  Smith,  Mr.  R.  Stratton,  Mr.  Martin 
J.  Sutton,  Mr.  J.  P.  Terry,  Lord  Wen- 
lock,  G.C.S.I.,  Mr.  C.  W.  Wilson. 
Election  of  New  Members. 
The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  of 
the  Council,  held  on  February  3,  1904, 
having  been  taken  as  read  and 
approved,  the  election  of  twenty-three 
new  Members  was  proceeded  with. 
The  Reports  of  the  various  Standing 
Committees  were  then  presented  and 
adopted  as  below  : — 
Finance. 
Sir  Nigel  Kingscote  (Chairman) 
reported  that  the  accounts  for  the 
month  of  February,  1904,  showed 
receipts  amounting  to  3,773f.  4.?. 
(including  a further  advance  to  the 
account  of  1,500/.),  and  expenditure 
amounting  to  5,006/.  4«.  M.  Accounts 
amounting  in  all  to  1,978/.  0«.  \d.  had 
been  passed. 
Journal. 
Sir  John  Thorold  (Chairman) 
reported  that  the  Committee  recom- 
mended the  publication  of  two 
pamphlets  on  Fruit  and  Vegetable 
Farming,  which  had  been  written  re- 
spectively by  Mr.  Charles  Whitehead 
and  Mr.  James  Ddale. 
Chemical  and  Woburn. 
Mr.  Bowen-Jones  (Chairman)  re- 
ported that  the  Committee  had  had 
before  them  two  cases  of  adulteration 
of  feeding  stuffs  with  rice  husks  and 
coffee-bean  husks  respectively.  In 
the  first  case  the  material  (rice  meal), 
charged  at  4/.  2s.  ltd.  per  ton  ex  ware- 
house, was  found  on  analysis  to  be 
simply  the  ground  up  husks  of  the  rice 
grain.  It  contained  12'83  per  cent,  of 
silicious  matter,  and  was  not  worth 
10s.  per  ton.  The  vendors,  on  being 
asked  to  account  for  it,  said  that  they 
bought  it  on  the  London  market. 
They  took  back  what  the  purchaser 
had  not  used,  and  met  him  half-way 
in  respect  of  what  had  been  consume<l. 
In  the  second  case,  a sample  of  bran 
was  found  on  analysis  by  Dr.  Voelcker 
to  contain  an  admixture  of  coffee-bean 
husks,  whicli  are  useless  for  feeding 
purposes.  The  price  charged,  4/.  15s. 
per  ton,  was  that  of  good  wheat  bran. 
The  explanation  of  the  ven<lors  was 
that  they — though  millers — could  not 
produce  enough  bran  themselves,  but 
had  to  buy  ; and  they  asserted  that, 
though  the  purchaser  ordered  “bran,” 
he  did  not  specify  “guaranteed  bran,” 
and  therefore  he  was  given  a material 
which  was  produced  in  London.  It 
was  perhaps  hardly  necessary  for  the 
Committee  to  point  out  that  bran  is  a 
product  of  wheat  oidy,  and  that  in 
purchasing  bran  it  is  not  necessary  to 
specify  guaranteed  bran. 
