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FORM OF ORDER. 
The Society has prepared an Order Form embodying the above suggestions, 
copies of which Form may be had on application to the Secretary at 12 
Hanover Square, London, W. The Order Form is in the following words : — 
ORDER FORM. 
Address 
To 
Date 
Please supply me for Delivery 
Tons Cwt. of 
At per ton. 
GUARANTEED to be in accordance with the conditions specified on 
the back hereof relating to this article, and subject to the analysis and 
report of the Consulting Chemist of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England. 
(Signature of Member) 
1 Note. — The conditions printed on the back of the form are the “Conditions of Purchase 
and Sale ” given on page ccvi. 
Instructions for 
Selecting & Sending Samples for Analysis. 
GENERAL RULES.' 
1. A sample taken for analysis should be fairly representative of the bulk 
from which it has been drawn. 
2. The sample should reach the Analyst in the same condition as it was at 
the time when drawn. 
FERTILISERS. 
When Fertilisers are delivered in bags, select four or five of these from 
the bulk, and either turn them out on a floor and rapidly mix their contents ; 
or else drive a shovel into each bag and draw out from as near the centre as 
possible a couple of shovelfuls of the manure, and mix these quickly on a floor. 
Halve the heap obtained in either of these ways, take one-half (rejecting 
the other), and mix again rapidly, flattening down with the shovel any lumps 
that appear. Repeat this operation until at last only some 3 lb. or 4 lb. are left. 
From this fill three tins, holding from 3 lb. to 1 lb. each, mark, fasten up, 
and seal each of these. Send one for analysis, and retain the others for 
reference. 
Or, the manure may be put into glass bottles provided with well-fitting 
corks : the bottles should be labelled and the corks sealed down. The sample 
sent for analysis can be packed in a wooden box and sent by post or rail. 
1 For more detailed remarks as to the sampling of fertilisers and feeding stuffs, see Journal, 
Third Series, Vol. II. No. VIII. December, 1891, pp. 868-863. 
