VINDICATED BY CHEMISTRY
+ A very carious bit of history, Ih which chemistry played a great part m vindicating the bona fides of a fatmer In making a claim on an insurance company, comes from America. Two barns, with their contents, were burnt to the ground. Their owners declared that at the time of ihe disaster the barns were filled with unthreaded wheat, and made their claims accordingly. The insurance company refused to pay, tjie grounds of objection being false pretence, they having been told that the contents consisted of worthless straw only. Experts were engaged Io Inquire into the matter, and these put It into the handß of a chemist, who analysed aomo of tho ashes contained m the bafns, m which was found a high percentage of phosphoric aqld. As straw In, as compared with wheat, poor m the amount of this element, It at onco -beoame evident that the claim was a just one, and the Insurance company at once paid. It is seldom that chemistry has been better employed than m this case, while the history la fall of thought as to the number of oases In whloh It might ba usefully employed. — " WlUs mi Gloaoe»ter BUndltd,"
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 16 December 1887, Page 3
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200VINDICATED BY CHEMISTRY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 16 December 1887, Page 3
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