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8. How is caustic soda made from the carbonate ? What is the action of 
Caustic soda with (1) solution of ferric chloride, (2) solution of ammonium 
sulphate ; (3) hot sand ; (4) hot manganese oxide with free access of air ? 
9. State how alcohol may be converted into acetic acid, and give the 
chemistry of the change. Copper and lead are easily acted on by acetic acid 
in presence of air ; explain what chemical changes occur in these cases. 
10. Explain the general constitution of natural fat oils, and how it differs 
from that of petroleum oils. 'What are" “ drying ’’ oils, and to what do they 
owe their characteristic property ?• 
EXAMINATION IN CHEMISTRY. 
Maximum Number op Marks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
B. AGhicutTuuAL Chemistry. 
Thursd-ay, May \2,th,from. ‘i i).m, till fiyi.w. 
1. What functions do salts of iron and alumina perform in cultivated 
soils 7 ■ 
2. Explain the action of dcoomposing' vegetable matter in benefiting 
soils. 
3. Explain the pos.sible advantages to be<lerived from feeding stock with 
roots or other succulent -food-as addition to cake or corn, in preference to 
giving dry food and water separatel}'. ' 
4. Where is nitrate of soda found 7 How may its presence be accounted 
for ; how does it occur ; and how is it prepared for sale 7 
5. Devise a field experiment which shall have as its object the elucidation 
of the possible value of basic slag as a manure for pasture land. 
6. Place the following foods in order of their relative richness in oil, viz. : 
linseed-cake, rice-meal, undecorticated cotton-cake, decorticated cotton-cake, 
beans, wheat, maize. Give ally reasons for not considering the oil percentage 
as the index of the mon4y value. 
EXAMINATION IN- BOOK-KEEPING. 
Maximum Number op Marks, 200. Pass Number, 100. 
Friday, May VAth,frovi 10 a.m. till \ p.m. 
Journalise the following transactions ; post them into a ledger; make out 
a Profit and Loss Account, and a Balance Sheet. 
John Thompson rents a farm at 4007. a year. .On Sspt. 29, 1890, his Bank 
Bakince is 3347. 5*. 9r7. petty cash in hand„67. 5«. 2<7. ; J. Matthews owes him 
for Sheep sold G27. 10^. ;,and his valuations afe : 
* • • 
£ 
8. 
d. 
Cattle . - . . . . 
633 
0 
0 
Sheep (exclusive of the- above 627. 10s.) . 
740 
0 
0 
Pigs and Poiiltry . ' . 
37 
0 
0 
Horses , •> . - . . 
210 
0 
0 
Corn . . . * 
707 
0 
0 
Hay and Straw . . . . • 
- 
226 
0 
0 
Growing Crops and Tillages 
Foods Purchased (inclusive of 
If 07. 9 /. 
82.5 
0 
0 
then unpaid) .... 
183 
10 
0 
Seeds and Manures . 
Implements at cost price, less 8 
per cent. 
175 
0 
0 
for depreciation 
299 
0 
0 
