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Farming NOTES. 4 « SPECIALLY WRITTEN BY A PRACTICAL FARMER. *Wa Weef pILOf>0?,e dealing- with one subject this Some will be cutting their hay and «rs waiting, and if the break in the laats those who a.re "Waiting to cut ,iJ},1 > Peril ai>s, te best off in the end. PT RC'HASIXO MAXTOR,BS AND I'EEDrXG In STUFFS. tio branch of agriculture is the chemist more assistance to fanners than in the hac~e air manures and feeding stuffs. How- ^6r a man may be, whatever may Practical experience, he can form no -pc 0y$?te opinion of the value of manures fe.ediTi.g- stuffs as cakes and compound '*s' by inspection, and he has to fail "back ,—B the chemist to ehed lisht upon this r. t one time fraud was rife in the 0« and, perhaps, there are fewer ca^es 1. Q-edoorate fraud now; still, we have only Van00* at the scientific reports from the of °ds societies which .take up the analyses Ures aTK' eak<'s for their members to \at-,ov' important it is to keep a careful *'hat 011 ra'anilrf''s and feeding stuffs pur- 0C.('s- Everyone who has experience of the ^J^11 of the Fertilisers and Feeding' Stuffs knows how extremely difficult it is to ain proof of fraudulent- dealing. Many ^fau rs from ignorance help the shady Im tf' lien a man with his eyes open ■thr ases an exorbitant price an article guaraateed analysis of which in no way *>f v03 tne pri'e, he must bear the burden Citiw. °vyn foolishness, and, judging from ^-stioais submitted to the agricultural ar"^ from the reports of the oonsult- So5. c_hemists to the Leading agricultural ^^eties, s'uoh cases a.re by no means un- ^p-Qrrio'i]. One oa":i not blame the manure j0'°T,^lant for obtaining the best price he can stuff, and even the attractive-looking ajhf sometimes supplied may be ju.stifi- »b ^*nam hi*s point of view, but the farmer ouidi remember that only phoepha-tes, a'7u* nitrog-en concern him. If the Vu^8 .C'ws a dozen other substances it W not benefit him any more—in fact, it ij^, uld incline us to have a sample analysed, th16 buy<'r insist on, knowing these items, and he should further remem- j"*1* that it ie onily the minimum guarantee C!°xm^s- T'^e ohernist to the Highland 3,n AgiricaiiltuTai Society of Scotland made g/ interesting report this month, wbioh bbqtad be read by all farmers. The floillow- is a rALrt of the report in question: — t my report in June last year I referred Fertiliser^ and Feeding Stuffs Act, J/ and pointed out that this amended Act j^fcatly increased the facilities far purchasers a fertilisers and feeding stuffs obtaining under the Act. Last year, contrai-y Cxp tions, the operation of the Act had til; diminisihing the numbers of fer- and feeding stuffs analysed under the ™-Qeme of the society; indeed, the numbers ^^yse-d under the society's scheme were T,^a^'er than they had been for several years vi°nsly. Possibly, the effects of the new 1-t are being felt to a greater extent this Ba3"1*' aT1:^ niem l>ers who use-id to have their analysed under the society's scheme aI:OW ba,T^T1;2' them analysed under the Act. Aot *5air!e time, the operations of the ajne limited in various directions, and supersede the scheme o.f the society. are a great many articles which cannot l' aTjalyc.rxl under the Act, such as soiL" 4,. fl=!tlOT,es, sheep dips, and poisons, milk, 'which can be undertaken under the tjr1^3 ^heme. F.ven in the case of fer- :19ers and feeding stuffs many ^ises aTise "^hich me/mbors are u'nable to have ma^e under the Act, or ftnd it un- ;0f e0, ^wu^' "which the sehetme t< Wie society suprprlies what is required. In my last r<T>nrt I referred to samples iniitation or flaked bone meal. I continue 1^° 'Teeedve many satcih samples. Many manti- _^etu7"T^i gcera to ('Jiti-n^po the meaai- ling of the term bone meail, and to apply it '1-0 a.71 ijindB of faJfftd produce'tions containing i'n¡ore or less bone. Bone meal should consist of raw bones, from which the grease has been lromoved, ground to a more or less fine meal, feven g-ood sample? are liable to contain a •little impurity, ?u<-U as Kind, :-111<1' hair, annnrs! matter. But even in <(irty thes-a impurities should not amount than a email fraction of the whole. Cejw/rUy tshe custom has grown tup among ^5)'xt n Arms of turning out as bone meal Q'1-eS 00in,^aiDingr large pei-centagee of <1 «^ria^S^C>t,"ler ^han raw bone, and in some °f th no raw bono at all. Many W ?T*' are quite pood manures, .iiey p-hould be sold as what they are, TOejy, m-istures, and not as bone meals. samples received during the pre- year were (1) a sample consisting of traw bone and one-half a mix- of ground sinew, hoof, and flesh; (2) a j_ !^l~re of bone meal with horn and hair; a TK'CII1liar sample consisting of de- eiatinised bone and some finely-ground Otis lyteparation, which may have In*11 flesh. Low grade muriates of ('Potash, which are properly known as potash i^alts or ijotasih man rare salts, continue to be :ld as the moiv valuable sul/phate of potash. "ro such samples reached me recently. It ap^;eaa-s a-leo to be common even among •l^elass firms to state the percentage of 'op*'36*1 'n manures in tho form of sulphate n Pota sh. This is a most improper and mis- ,practice, and the only reason for its iij^Ption is to mate the percentage look 'it?geT> and, therefore, to obtain an unfair vantage over rivals who make the etate- in the fair and proper form as potash. -:t'Ji t'k'0 potash as sulph-ate of potash e Percentage is made to look nearly twice as when it is stated in the proper way Potash. Tho statement as sulphaite of 'JVj'pa&h is not in conformity with the Fer- an d Feeding Stuffs Act, which requires Q Potash to be stated as sutrth, 'and pur- asers should insist on having the state- made 0:1 the invoice in the proper way. Itav. ver sa'n:PIc's ground lime than usual ^>eaT1 £ eTL't ™ f°r analysis. Of those sent jj contained under 60 rer cent, of caustic 6^ On.e which was guaranteed to contain "tb 1X311 <XYnt- obtained only 57 pe.r cent. On of* other hand, two excellent samples, eaoh T(. _hieh contained over 80 per cent., were lj/^n'ed. Several members have mentioned •]e raemures of a worthless or almost worth- fJT>e are being largely ad->-ertised and 'tis f'leir dis'triots. In some cases adver- ^^raent of such manures were sent to me. are of the usual extravagant and lau- ^^tory type, and claim far great virtues for ^v^Se rubbishy articles than are possessed by the liest and most expensive artificial .j^es. In no case has any member sent ,a sample of srach a manure for analysis, ^^h articles are usually sold to the more ^ary and ignorant farmers, and these are the men who send samples to be a/nalyeed. i>e»» •TDOn^ the samples of feeding stuffs ^yed was a sample of ground rice husks, w is a worthless article, and may be ijs yaJly in jurious. Its actual feeding value ■tower than that of Oat husks, and as it K a large percentage of sdlioa it may a« an irritant in the digestive systems of -to lrna^-s- The sample in question was ground ,a fine meal, and looked very nice. Another

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