It shall then be thoroughly mixed, and a portion for the determination of the moisture shall be at once taken.

(c) From the sample thus prepared, a portion not less than 100 grams in weight shall be taken and further powdered if necessary and passed through a sieve with perforations of about one millimetre in diameter.

(d) If the original sample is appreciably damp, or if for any reason the operations of pulverisation and mixing are likely to result in loss or gain of moisture, the moisture shall be determined in this portion, as well as in the sample prepared as in paragraph (i.) (b), in order that the results of the analysis may be corrected to correspond with the sample in its original condition as regards moisture.

(e) Materials which cannot be conveniently pulverised or passed through a sieve shall be thoroughly mixed and sampled by the most suitable means.

(f) The prepared portion of the sample shall be placed in a stoppered bottle and from it the portions for analysis shall be weighed.

(ii.) DETERMINATION OF MOISTURE (LOSS ON DRYING). A weighed quantity of the sample shall be dried at 100° C. (iii.) DETERMINATION OF OIL.

(a) A weighed quantity of the sample shall be placed in a Soxhlet thimble, which shall then be placed in the Soxhlet extraction tube and extracted with washed, re-distilled ether. At the end of 3 to 4 hours the thimble shall be removed from the Soxhlet tube, dried, and its contents finely ground in a small mortar previously rinsed with ether. The substance shall then be returned to the thimble, the mortar being washed out with ether, and the extraction continued for another hour.

After evaporation of the solvent the oil shall be dried at 100° C. and weighed. The oil shall be re-dissolved in ether and any undissolved matter shall be weighed and deducted.

(b) In the case of samples containing saccharine matter, e.g., sugar meals, the weighed portion in the Soxhlet thimble shall be washed twice with water, and then dried, previous to the extraction.

(iv.) DETERMINATION OF ALBUMINOIDS.

The percentage of albuminoids shall be ascertained by multiplying the percentage of nitrogen by 6:25.

The determination of nitrogen shall be as follows:

A weighed portion of the sample shall be transferred to a Kjeldahl digestion flask; 10 grams of potassium sulphate and 25 cubic centimetres of concentrated sulphuric acid shall be added, and the flask heated until a clear liquid, colourless or of light straw colour is obtained. The operation may be accelerated by the addition of a small crystal of copper sulphate or a globule of mercury to the liquid in the digestion flask.

The quantity of ammonia shall be determined by distillation into standard acid after liberation with alkali, and, where mercury has been used, with the addition also of sodium or potassium sulphide solution.

The materials used shall be examined as to their freedom from nitrogen by means of a control experiment carried out under similar conditions with the same quantities of the reagents which have been employed in the actual analysis, one gram of pure sugar being used in place of the weighed portion of the sample. The quantity of standard acid used in this control experiment shall be deducted from the total quantity of acid found to have been neutralised in the distillation of the sample.

USE OF PRESCRIBED WEIGHTS.

5. In calculating the results of analyses the atomic weights adopted by the International Committee on Atomic Weights shall be employed.

FORMS OF CERTIFICATES.

6. Every certificate which is affected by Regulation No. 3 of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs (General) Regulations, 1906*, and these Regulations, and which is dated on or after the first day of January, 1909, shall contain the following words:

"The analysis was made in accordance with the Fertilisers "and Feeding Stuffs (Methods of Analysis) Regulations, 1908." SHORT TITLE.

7. These Regulations may be cited as the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs (Methods of Analysis) Regulations, 1908. In Witness whereof the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have hereunto set their official seal, this ninth day of November, nineteen hundred and eight.

(L.S.)

T. H. Middleton,

Assistant Secretary.

(b.) Ireland.

THE FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS REGULATIONS, No. 2, 1907. DATED FEBRUARY 29, 1908.

1908. No. 168.

Whereas, by the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906†, Section 4, it is enacted that the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may make Regulations

(a.) with respect to any matter which under the said Act is to be prescribed;

(b.) as to the qualifications to be possessed by agricultural analysts, deputy agricultural analysts, and official samplers;

(c.) as to the manner in which analyses are to be made;
(d.) as to the manner in which samples are to be taken and
dealt with; and

(e.) generally for the purpose of carrying the said Act into

execution.

Provided that nothing in the said section, or in any regulation made thereunder, shall affect the right of the purchaser of an article now used for fertilising the soil or as food for cattle or poultry to have analysed by the agricultural analyst a sample of an article taken by him, or at his request, otherwise than in accordance with the regulations.

And whereas by section 2 of the Rules Publication Act, 1893*, it is provided that where a rule-making authority certifies that on account of urgency or any special reason any rule should come into immediate operation it shall be lawful for such authority to make any such rules to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Rules, but such Provisional Rules shall only con tinue in force until rules shall have been made in accordance with the foregoing provisions of the said Rules Publication Act, 1893.

And whereas by section 12 of the said Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906, it is enacted that for the purposes of the execution of the Act in Ireland and the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland shall be substituted for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.

And whereas certain rules were made to come into immediate operation as Provisional Rules, and it is expedient that in place thereof the rules in the Schedule hereto should be made and have effect as Rules under Section 1 of the said Act;

And whereas the notice required by the said Rules Publication Act, 1893, of the proposal to make the said Rules (either as originally drawn or as amended by the proper authority) as Statutory Rules, and of the place where copies of same might be obtained, was duly given in the Dublin Gazette of the 13th day of September, 1907, and all times have elapsed necessary now to make the same as Statutory Rules;

Now, We, the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon us by the above-mentioned Act, and of all other statutes and powers thereunto enabling Us, do hereby make the Rules in the Schedule hereto set forth as Rules henceforth to be used and be in force under Section 4 of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906.

Dated this Twenty-ninth day of February, 1908.

Sealed with the Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland.

(L.S.)

R. Cantrell,

On behalf of the Secretary.

* 56-7 V. c. 66.

The Schedule.

Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland.

THE FERTILISERS AND FEEDING STUFFS REGULATIONS, No. 2, 1907.

The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906, hereby make the following Regulations:

REGULATIONS AS TO THE ANALYST TO WHOM SAMPLES

ARE TO BE SENT.

1. Where under the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906, any person desires that a sample shall be analysed by the Agricultural Analyst the sample or parts of the sample, as the case may be, shall be sent to such Agricultural Analyst as is hereby prescribed, that is to say:

(1) If the sample is taken in a county, or in a county borough the council of which have appointed or concurred in appointing an Agricultural Analyst, then to the Analyst appointed for such county or borough, respectively.

(2) If the sample is taken in a county borough the Council of which have not appointed or concurred in appointing an Agricultural Analyst, then to the Analyst appointed for the County in which for the purposes of the Local Government Act, 1898,* such borough is deemed to be situate.

SHORT TITLE.

2. These Regulations may be cited as the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Regulations, No. 2, 1907.

In witness whereof the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland have hereunto set their official seal, this Twenty-ninth day of February, 1908.

(L.S.)

R. Cantrell,

On behalf of the Secretary.

* 61-2 V. c. 37.

ALLOTMENTS, ENGLAND.

1. Transfer of Property to | 2. Compulsory Hiring and PurParish Councils, p. 16. chase, p. 17.

THE

1. Transfer of Property to Parish Councils. ORDER OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD, DATED MARCH 20, 1908, UNDER SECTION 20 (3) OF SMALL HOLDINGS AND ALLOTMENTS ACT, 1907, FIXING APPOINTED DAY FOR TRANSFER OF PROPERTY AND LIABILITIES UNDER THE ALLOTMENTS ACTS.

1908. No. 251.

To the District Council of every Rural District in England and Wales;

To the Parish Council for every Rural Parish in England and Wales having a Parish Council;

To the Parish Meeting for every Rural Parish in England and Wales not having a Parish Council;

And to all others whom it may concern.

Whereas by subsection (3) of Section 20 of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907* (herein-after referred to as "the Act"), it is enacted that all property acquired and all liabilities incurred by any rural district council under the Allotments Acts, 1887† and 1890, as amended by the Local Government Act, 18948 (herein-after referred to as "the Allotments Acts"), shall, as from an appointed day fixed by the Local Government Board either generally or as respects any particular district, by virtue of the Act be transferred to and vested in the parish council of the parish in respect of which the property was acquired or the liabilities incurred;

And whereas it is further enacted by sub-section (4) of Section 46 of the Act that references in the Act to a parish council shall, in the case of a rural parish not having a parish council, include references to the parish meeting subject to the proviso that any property by the Act transferred to and vested in a parish council shall in such a case be transferred to and vested in the chairman of the parish meeting and the overseers of the parish;

And whereas it is expedient that the day herein-after mentioned should be fixed generally as the appointed day for the purposes and within the meaning of the subsection firstly herein-before specified:

Now therefore, We, the Local Government Board, in the exercise of Our powers in that behalf, do hereby fix the First day of April, One thousand nine hundred and eight, as the 7 Edw. 7. c. 54, repealed and consolidated as from January 1, 1909, with other enactments, by the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 36), 53-4 V, c, 65, § 56-7 V. c. 73.

+50-1 V. c. 48.