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QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE CHEMICAL 
COMMITTEE. 
June, 1893. ■ • 
1. Referring to a case of linseed cake sold to Mr. C. Lethbridge, 
of Sherfield Manor, Basingstoke, and reported in the last number 
of the Society’s Journal (Yol. IV., Part I., page 145), the Com- 
mittee, on further inquiry, regret that the name of Messrs. A. 
Whittet & Co. was introduced into the case, and, in justice to 
Messrs. Whittet & Co , the Committee publish the following letter, 
which has been received from them : — 
(Copy.) The Oil Mills, Weybridge : May 15, 1893. 
To the Chemical Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
Gentlemen, — In reference to the analysis of a sample of cake sent up 
by Mr. Lethbridge and the report thereon in the last Journal of the Society, 
which cake was alleged to be of our manufacture, we must ask permission to 
make the following statement, proof of which we have laid before you. 
We did not supply Mr. Lethbridge with the cake in question at the 
price mentioned (81. 10$. per ton), and, in fact, have never done any business 
with him. If the cake analysed was of our manufacture, it could not: have 
been other than part of a four-ton lot consigned by us (nearly three weeks 
prior to the date when Mr. Lethbridge was supplied) to a firm of local 
dealers, and which was ordered by them and delivered by us to them as 
Seconds Linseed Cake, at the price of 71. 12$. Qd. per ton (nett) free on rail. 
Our pure W cake has, we may justly say, a high reputation in the 
Southern counties, and it is obviously not to our interests that other cake 
should he supplied in lieu thereof. Moreover, we may add that we, in 
common with all honest manufacturers, are entirely at one with your Society 
in your endeavour to prevent the buyer of cake being misled or imposed 
upon, and are desirous of taking all steps to that end. — We are, Gentlemen, 
Your obedient servants, (Signed) A. Whittet & Co. 
2. Mr. Martin Morrison, of Elton Hall, Stockton-on-Tees, sent 
on March 18, 1893, a sample of manure, of which lie had ordered 
four tons by way of trial. 
The manure cost 3 1. 10$. per ton delivered, and was obtained 
from The North British Manure Co., Central Hall, Church Street, 
West Hartlepool. 
A circular giving the following guaranteed analysis was given to 
Mr. Morrison by the local agent of the company : — 
Guaranteed Analysis. 
1 Organic matter 
. 2308 
Moisture ....... 
. 15-78 
Oxide of iron and alumina .... 
. • 400 
Phosphate of lime ...... 
. 3-26 
Sulphate of lime ...... 
. 1406 
Carbonate of lime 
. 3-90 
2 Magnesia and alkalies 
. 13-96 
Silicious matter 
. 21-06 
1 nitrogen ..... 
. 1-68 
equal to ammonia ..... 
. 20-1 
2 magnesia .... 
. 7-22 
alkalies, &c. , ... 
. 6-74 
10000 
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