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feature in soils. The remedy for such a state of things is, of 
course, to give the land repeated dressings of lime. 
List of samples analysed on behalf of members of the 
Society between December 1, 1907, and November 30, 1908 : — 
Linseed cakes ......... 35 
Undecorticated cotton- cakes ...... 22 
Decorticated cotton cakes . . . . . • 6 
Compound feeding cakes and meals ..... 30 
Cereals .......... 12 
Rice meal ......... 1 
Dried grains ......... 1 
Superphosphates ........ 20 
Dissolved bones ........ 8 
Compound manures . . . . ... . . 11 
Raw and steamed bones . . . . . . . 12 
Peruvian guano ........ 8 
Fish, meat, and bone guano 7 
Basic slag ......... 39 
Nitrate of soda ........ 1 
Sulphate of ammonia . . . . . . . 12 
Potash salts ......... 7 
Shoddy . - 25 
Hoofs and horns ........ 3 
Rape and other manure cakes ...... 3 
Lime .......... 10 
Soot ...... ... 5 
Waters .......... 52 
Soils 23 
Milk, cream, and butter ... . . . . . 22 
Miscellaneous ......... 33 
Total .... 408 
J. Augustus Voelcker. 
22 Tudor Street, 
London, E.C. 
