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A. Feeding Stuffs. 
1. Linseed Cake. 
A marked improvement has to be recorded in the conditions 
under which linseed cake is sold to the farmer. It is 
remarkable that, whereas formerly I had occasion frequently 
to report on cases of inferior and adulterated linseed cake, I 
have not, throughout the past year, had to bring forward a 
single instance of this in reference to English-made cakes. 
Where inferiority has been found, it has been with cakes of 
foreign manufacture and sold without definite guarantee. 
Even more satisfactory is it to find that the vague terms “ oil 
cake,” “ 95 per cent.,” &c., are going out of use, and it would 
certainly seem as if the constant warnings I have issued year 
by year have borne fruit. Much of this is due, no doubt, to 
the action of a number of firms in agreeing to sell subject to 
the Royal Agricultural Society’s recommendations as regards 
“ purity,” and the fact that guarantees in this form are 
now freely given and accepted, affords proof of the satisfac- 
tory nature of the standard laid down by this Society, and, 
further, that there is no practical difficulty in attaining it. 
2. Cotton Cake. 
The use of borax in ordinary undecorticated cotton cakes 
has not been nearly as general as before, though in Bombay 
cotton cakes borax is almost always employed. Bombay cotton 
cake has, however, to a large extent gone out of use, partly in 
consequence of the nearer approximation of its price to that of 
Egyptian cotton cake, and partly because of the well-founded 
objection to its “ woolly ” character. But few samples of it 
have been sent to me, and, when they have come, they have 
mostly been found to be very “ woolly,” and to contain borax, 
and, frequently, excessive sand. Such an instance is the 
following, when a sample gave on analysis : — • 
Per cent. 
Oil 4-49 
Nitrogen . . . . . . 2 ' 79 
Sand ....... B75 
Both oil and nitrogen, the latter especially, are decidedly 
below what would be found in a good cotton cake, and the 
sand also is very high. Borax and excessive woolliness were 
additional features. 
3. Decorticated Cotton Cake. 
This cake has been alike dear and hard to procure of good 
quality and condition. The crushed and “ made-up ” cake has, 
in consequence, been in greater demand, and, provided this be 
sound and fresh, it is certainly better to get than the hard, 
