Annual Report for 1913 of the Consulting Chemist. 371 
The analysis was as follows : — 
Moisture . . . . 
Organic matter 
Phosphate of Lime . 
Alkalies, &c. .... 
Sand . 
3 Containing nitrogen . 
equal to ammmonia 
13-03 
74-68 
2-53 
4-59 
5*17 
100-00 
2'57 
3-12 
This I take to be the same as Mahua or Mowa bean meal 
obtained from the bassialati folia tree. The analysis showed 
it to be not nearly the equal of castor bean meal or other cake- 
residues used for fertilising purposes, and I should consider it 
fully high in price. 
8. Miscellaneous Materials. 
A member sent me a sample of crushed quartz which he 
wished to give to poultry and other birds in order to supply 
grit for them. 
The material, I was informed, was the refuse from lead 
mines, and on coming to examine it, I found that it was not 
merely quartz, but that it contained a good deal of carbonate of 
lime, and lead and pyrites occurred in it in quatitity also, So 
that it would be very undesirable to use. 
The following is a list of the samples submitted to me by 
members of the Society for the twelve months, December 1st, 
1912, to November 30th, 1913 
Linseed cakes .... 
Undecorticated cotton cakes 
Decorticated cotton cakes 
Compound feeding cakes and meals 
Cereals . . . . 
Bean and pea meals . 
Dried grains .... 
Superphosphates 
Dissolved bones . . : 
Compound manures . 
Raw and steamed bones . 
Peruvian guano 
Fish, meat, and bone guanos . 
Basic slag . . , 
Nitrate of soda 
Sulphate of ammonia 
Potash salts .... 
Shoddy . . . - 
Refuse manure 
16 
20 
12 
48 
9 
2 
2 
17 
6 
21 
5 
1 
8 
25 
3 
8 
6 
42 
2 . 
