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It also provides tliat any person aggrieved by a summary conviction 
under the Act may appeal to a court of quarter sessions. 
III. For the further assistance of farmers who may desire to 
have analyses made of fertilisers or feeding stuffs (and who presum- 
ably are not connected with organisations already existing — like 
the Royal Agricultural Society — which provide for their Members 
analyses at low rates) the Act requires each County Council to 
appoint a “ district agricultural analyst,” and empowers it to remune- 
rate such officer, charging the sender of the sample sucli fee as the 
County Council may appoint (sections 4 and 5). As the Act does 
not come into force until January 1, 1894, it is as yet too early 
to forecast whether this provision will make in the future any con- 
siderable difference in the number of samples that will be sent to 
the Society’s Consulting Chemist for analysis ; but, desiring that 
Dr. Voelcker’s great experience in these matters should be made 
available as widely as possible under the Act, the Council have 
already, on the recommendation of this Committee, given him per- 
mission to accept any appointments under the Act which may be 
offered to him by County Councils. 
IV. In view of the new Act, the Committee are now considering 
what revision is necessary in the “ Guide to the Purchase of Feed- 
ing Stuffs and Manures ” and in the “ Instructions for Selecting and 
Sending Samples” issued by the Society to its Members; 1 but look- 
ing to the fact that on and after January 1, 1894, buyers will have 
legislative protection which they did not possess before, it does not 
appear to the Committee that any substantial advantage would accrue 
from their now recording in detail the numerous cases of adulteration 
and misrepresentation which have been brought to their notice 
during the past quarter. 
Y. The following facts arising out of these cases may, however, 
still be of service, as indicating some of the safeguards necessary to 
be taken by Members when purchasing manures and feeding stuffs 
in the future : — 
Pure Dissolved Bones . — Two cases reported to the Committee 
give ground for the belief that under the description “ Pure Dis- 
solved Bones ” or “ Pure Dissolved Bones, made under a new 
process,” is sold an article which, inasmuch as it has not been dis- 
solved at all with oil of vitriol, has no right to be called “Dissolved 
Bones.” Although a guaranteed analysis is given with it, this 
analysis is not that of dissolved bones (for it includes no “ soluble 
phosphate ” as understood in the trade), but is closely like that of 
boiled or steamed bones. Farmers, it is believed, purchase this 
manure under the impression that they are receiving dissolved 
bones, i.e. “ raw bone treated with oil of vitriol.” In both the cases 
above mentioned the vendor made an allowance. 
Nitrogenous Bone Manure. — A sample of manure was invoiced 
to a member as “ Nitro Bone Manure,” a guaranteed analysis being 
1 For copy of the revised Suggestions as to the Purchase of Fertilisers and 
Feeding-Stuffs, (cc., see pages ccv.-ccviii. of Appendix. 
