Quarterly Report of the Chemical Committee , March , 1893. 145 
This is a cake not only impure by reason of admixture of rape, cockle, 
and other weed-seeds with the linseed, hut highly objectionable and risky 
to use on account of the large amount of sand which it contains. 
The cake was obtained of a local dealer. 
Mr. Peck subsequently wrote that the vendors had made him a 
large allowance on the cake, and he declined to give any further 
information. 
5. Mr. C. Lethbridge, of Sherfield Manor, Basingstoke, sent on 
January 6, 1893, a sample of Linseed-cake. 
One ton of this had been purchased at 81. 10s. per ton, the manu- 
facturers being Messrs. A. Whittet <fc Co., The Oil Mills, Weybridge. 
The invoice described the cake as, “ Whittet’s Co., Linseed 
Cake.” 
The following report was given : — 
Moisture 
Oil 
1 Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming matters) 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible fibre 
AVoody fibre (cellulose) 
2 Mineral matter (ash) 
' containing nitrogen .... 
2 including sand ..... 
January 18, 1893. 
1065\ 
8-50 
31-19 
29-4S i 
12-47 
7-7V 
10000 
4-99 
2-91 
This is an inferior and adulterated cake. It contains rape-seed, rice- 
husk and starchy ingredients, with an excess of sand. 
6. Mr. J. H. Bletcher, of Grove House, Thorne, Doncaster, sent 
on November 30, 1892, a sample of Linseed-cake taken from a 4-ton 
lot which he had purchased on a guarantee of its being “ 93 per- 
cent. pure.” 
The following report was duly forwarded to him : — 
December 7, 1892. 
Moisture 12-60 
Oil . . 11-98 
Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming matters) 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible fibre . 
Woody fibre (cellulose) .... 
Mineral matter (ash) 
29-69 
3214 
vioo-oo 
7-52 
6-07 
1 containing nitrogen ..... 4-75 
This cake has decidedly muoh foreign seeds and starchy matters, and is 
not pure. 
Mr. Bletcher subsequently wrote : — 
December 30, 1892. 
Dear Sir, — I received your letter of the 24th instant with regard to the 
sample of Linseed-cake No. 1 C. I only bought four tons of that lot, and the 
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