246 Annual Report for 1906 of the Consulting Chemist. 
of a cake submitted to me, which was both inferior in quality 
and excessively dear, the price being 81. 13s. per ton delivered: — 
Moisture .... 
• • • • 
9-88 
Oil ..... 
• • • • 
6-90 
1 Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming matters) . 
42-62 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible 
fibre . 
2729 
Woody fibre (cellulose) 
• 
7-13 
2 Mineral matter (ash) . 
. 
6-18 
100-00 
1 Containing nitrogen 
6-82 
2 Including sand . 
. 
035 
3. Undecorticated 
Cotton Cakes. 
While ordinary home-made cotton cake has been, generally 
speaking, of good quality and in good condition, this is far 
from being the case with the class of cake known as “ Bombay 
cotton cake.” I confess that I have never been favourably 
disposed towards this kind of cake, as I cannot bring myself 
to think that it can be used for stock without running risk 
on account of the woolly fibre attaching to the seed. Bat the 
experience of the past year has led me to regard it even less 
favourably, for I have noticed a steady rise in the percentage 
of sand and dirt which occur in these cakes and which result 
from less care being taken in cleaning the seed. At first, 
*50 per cent, of sand was about the amount usually found, 
as against a maximum of *25 per cent, in cakes made from 
Egyptian seed ; but, as the following analyses show, the per- 
centage is now considerably increased, and it is exceptional, 
according to my experience, to find a Bombay cotton cake 
with less than 1 per cent, of sand. 
A B C D E F 
Percentage of ash 5*52 5*54 5*87 6-00 5'93 5*73 
,, ,, sand P04 094 1*19 1*25 1 - 12 1*25 
Still higher and exceptional figures are found in the 
following : — , 
A 
B 
Moisture ...... 
1047 
11-36 
Oil ....... 
4-69 
4-36 
Albuminous compounds (flesh-forming 
matters) ...... 
2056 
18-88 
Mucilage, sugar, and digestible fibre 
36-46 
34-60 
Woody fibre (cellulose) .... 
20-39 
18-97 
2 Mineral matter (ash) .... 
7-43 
11-83 
100-00 
100-00 
Containing nitrogen .... 
3*29 
3-02 
2 Including sand ..... 
2-09 
5-23 
