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When manures are delivered in bulk, portions should be successively drawn 
from different parts of the bulk, the heap being turned over now and again. 
The portions drawn should be thoroughly mixed, subdivided, and, finally, 
samples should be taken as before, except that when the manure is coarse and 
bulky it is advisable to send larger samples than when it is in a finely-divided 
condition. 
FEEDING STUFFS. 
Linseed, Cotton, and other Feeding Cakes.— If a single cake be 
taken, three strips should be broken ofE right across the cake and from the 
middle portion of it, one piece to be sent for analysis, and the other two 
retained for reference. Each of the three pieces should be marked, wrapped 
in paper, fastened up, and sealed. The piece forwarded for analysis can be 
sent by post or rail. 
A more satisfactory plan is to select four to six cakes from different parts 
of the delivery, then break off a piece about four inches wide from the 
middle of each cake, and pass these pieces through a cake-breaker. The 
broken cake should then be well mixed, and three samples of about 1 lb. each 
should be taken and kept in tins or bags duly marked, fastened, and sealed 
as before. One of these lots should be sent for analysis, the remaining two 
being kept for reference. It is advisable, also, with the broken pieces to send 
a small strip from an unbroken cake. 
Feeding Meals, Grain, &C. — Handfuls should be drawn from the 
centre of half a dozen different bags of the delivery ; these lots should then 
be well mixed, and three |-lb. tins or bags filled from the heap, each being 
marked, fastened up, and sealed. One sample is to be forwarded for analysis 
and the others retained for reference. 
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. 
Time for taking Samples.— All samples, both of fertilisers and 
feeding stuffs, should be taken as soon after their delivery as possible, and 
should reach the Analyst within ten days after the delivery of the article. 
In every case it is advisable that the Analyst’s certificate be received before a 
manure is sown or a feeding stuff is given to stock. 
Procedure in the Event of the Vendor wishing Fresh 
Samples to be Drawn. — Should a purchaser find that the Analyst’s 
certificate shows a fertiliser or feeding stuff not to come up to the guarantee 
given him, he may inform the vendor of the result and complain accordingly, 
lie ''should then send to the vendor one of the two samples which he has kept 
for reference. If, however, the vendor should demand that a fresh sample be 
drawn, the purchaser must allow this, and also give the vendor an opportunity 
of being present, either in person or through a representative whom he may 
appoint. In that case three samples should be taken in the presence of both 
parties with the same precautions as before described, each of which should be 
duly packed up, labelled, and sealed by both parties. One of these is to be 
given to the vendor, one is to be sent to the Analyst, and the third is to be kept 
by the purchaser for reference or future analysis if necessary. 
All samples intended for the Consulting Chemist of the Society should he 
addressed ( postage or carriage prepaid') to Dr. J. AUGUSTUS VOELCKER , 
12 JIanorer Square, London , W. Separate letters of instruction should l>c 
sent at the same time. 
