Wednesday,  December  7,.  1910. 
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evening  a Member  of  the  Council  entertained  them  at  Dinner  at 
Princes'  Restaurant.  The  tour  of  the  visitors  extended  over  a 
period  of  three  weeks ; and,  since  the  conclusion  of  their  visit,  a 
letter  has  been  received  from  the  President  of  the  German  Agri- 
cultural Society,  thanking  the  Council  for  their  reception  of  the 
party  and  for  the  excellent  arrangements  made  for  their  tour, 
from  which  they  derived  great  pleasure.  Throughout  their 
visit  they  experienced  the  kindest  hospitality  at  the  hands  of 
the  Members  of  the  Society  and  others  who  received  them. 
20.  About  the  same  number  of  samples  as  in  1909  have  been 
analysed,  on  behalf  of  Members,  in  the  Society’s  Laboratory, 
during  the  past  twelve  months,  viz.,  469  for  1910  as  compared 
with  475  for1  1909.  In  connection  with  the  Liverpool  Show, 
44  samples  of  Cider  and  Perry  and  146  of  Milk  were  examined, 
in  addition.  The  Chemical  Privileges  underwent  revision  during 
the  year,  and  the  revised  statement  issued  to  members  is  more 
attractive.  The  unsatisfactory  condition  of  matters  in  relation  to 
the  working  of  the  Fertilisers  and  Feeding  Stuffs  Act  has,  on 
several  occasions,  been  the  subject  of  consideration  by  the 
Chemical  Committee,  on  whose  report  representations  have  been 
made  by  the  Council  to  the  Board  of  Agriculture,  urging  the  need 
of  amendment  of  the  Act.  The  issue  of  private  circulars  to 
Members  containing  details  of  cases  of  adulteration  or  misre- 
presentation has  been  continued,  and  is  found  to  serve  a very 
useful  purpose.  In  these  are  given  reports  of  (a)  Middlings 
adulterated  with  rice  husks;  (5)  “Bombay”  cotton  cake  sold  as 
“ Egyptian  ” ; (c)  Barley  meal  adulterated  with  oat  husks  and 
other  impurities ; ( d ) Dissolved  bones  not  answering  to  the 
description  and  very  excessive  in  price ; (e)  Sharps  with  weed 
seeds  and  excessive  sand;  ( f ) “Round  Oil  Feeding  Cake”  with 
excessive  sand.  The  purchase  in  the  case  of  ( d ) was  from  a 
Farmers’  Co-operative  Society. 
21.  At  the  Woburn  Experimental  Station,  the  work  done 
has  been  of  sustained  interest  and  importance.  On  the  Farm, 
in  addition  to  the  general  experiments,  trials  have  been  made 
of  the  new  varieties  of  cross-bred  wheats  introduced  by  Professor 
Biffen,  of  Cambridge,  and  also  of  French  wheats.  The  residual 
values  of  calcium  cyanamide  and  nitrate  of  lime  have  been 
ascertained  in  comparison  with  nitrate  of  soda  and  sulphate 
of  ammonia.  The  Pot-culture  work  has  included  further  experi- 
ments on  the  influence  of  magnesia  on  plants,  and  these  give 
results  of  striking  interest.  The  Hills’  experiments  concerned 
chiefly  the  use  of  zinc  in  different  forms  and  of  lithium.  The 
question  of  green-manuring  with  leguminous  and  non-leguminous 
crops  respectively  has  been  advanced  a further  stage.  An 
exhibit  from  the  Station  was  prepared  for  and  sent  to  Buenos 
Aires  Exhibition,  and  one  was  sent,  as  usual,  to  the  Society’s 
Annual  Show  at  Liverpool.  The  Farm  and  Station  have,  during 
