Transactions of RHASS Volume 1940 - Page 237
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y 52 CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. COMPOSITION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MANURES AND FEEDING-STUFFS. Note on Statutory Statements. In the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926, are included certain schedules which give the definitions implied on the sale of fertilisers and feeding-stufis under certain names and also the par- ticulars to be contained in the statutory statement which has to be furnished to the purchaser in connection with the sale of a fertiliser or a feeding-stuff. Such statutory statements “ shall have effect as a written warranty by the seller that the particulars contained in the statutory statement are correct.” The particulars required vary for different articles and the under- noted are given as examples. Full particulars can be found by reference to the schedules of the Act. FERTILISERS. Sulphate of ammonia . . Amount of nitrogen and amount of free acid. Superphosphate . . . Amount of soluble phosphoric acid. Potassium salts (potash fertilisers) Amount of potash. Compound fertilisers . . Amounts of nitrogen, potash, soluble phosphoric acid, and insoluble phosphoric acid, if any, respectively. FEEDmG-STUFFS. Linseed cakes and the meals of Amounts of oil and albuminoids. such cakes. Cotton cakes or meals (not decor- Amounts of oil and albuminoids. ticated). Cotton cakes or meals from decor- Amounts of oil, albuminoids, and ticated or partly decorticated fibre. cotton seed. Compound cakes or meals . Amounts, if any, of oil, albumi- noids, and fibre. CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 53 PRICES OF FEEDING-STUFFS—SEASON 1939. (Cash Prices as at 7th June. These prices are subject to variation from mouth to month or oftener.) (For Cash Prices as at 156 February 1939, sec previous volume.) Price ‘ Price Name of Feeding-Stuff. per Tom Name of Feeding-Stuff. per Ton. Linseed Calie(Home) 8% Oil 23% V. . . . from . £5 5 0 Albuminoids . ’ h 'l ' £8 12 6 ‘ Diied Distillery Grains {‘0 _ 6 5 0 Linseed Cake (Expeller) . . S 12 6 l Dried Brewers' Grains. . 4 5 0 Cotton Seed Cake (Egyptian) (iin- ‘ Feeding Treacle (Glasgow) . 5 5 0 decorticated), Home, 4'5% Oil, l Locust Beans (Kibbled)" 6 1‘2 6 22% Albuminoids . . . 5 1'2 6 Maize (Argciitiiic)" . 6 5 0 Ground Nut ane— ,, (Flaked)* . . . 7 0 (I Decorticated (Expeller)l 8% Oil, Soya Benn Meal(extracted). 9 5 0 42% Alliuminoids, 12% Fibre. 7 5 0 Home Oats . . . . 6 0 O Dccorticuted (Expeller), 8% Oil, Wheat (Home) . . 4 15 0 50% Albuiuinoids,s% Fibre . 7 7 b ‘ ,, (Flaked) . . . 6 0 0 Dccorticated Cotton Seed Cake, Barley (Feeding) (Illlpui‘ti‘d) 5 15 0 (Expellcr), 8% Oil, 40% Albu- While Flsli Meul(Aber(leen) 14 15 0 minoids (Glasgow) . . 7 10 0 ,, ,, (Leitli) . 15 2 6 Rice Bran Meal 5 7 6 ,, ,, (Glasgow) . 15 5 0 Broad Bran . 5 17 6 Ground Barley . . . G 10 0 Medium Bran . . 5 2 G Skim Milk Powder} ‘21 0 0 Parings or \Vlieatings. 5 15 0 ‘ Whey Powder 17 0 0 Nola-Prices free on rail, Leitli, unless where otherwise stated. * In Railway Sacks. i In two-ton lots delivered. PRICES OF FERTILISERS AND FEEDING-STUFFS— SEASON 1940. (Cash Prices an at 7th February. These prices are subject to variation from month to month or oftener.) SUPERPHOSPHATES. ITEM TO BE VALUED. Paicns roa run UNDEnNo-rnn PERCENTAGES. ignosrnonic Acm DIESOLVED . . . in. .d 160 } 18'0 21-0 =TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE DISSOLVED . . . 35 393 459 February Price per ton . . . . . . £1 0 0 £4 5 0 £4 12 6 Price per Unit . . . . . . . . 5/0 \ _ use 4/5 , ,1 a: |
| Title | Transactions of RHASS Volume 1940 - Page 237 |
