Notebook No. 9

Contains numbered pages 1-89, not all of which have been used, and blank and unnumbered pages from p. 90 onwards.

Inside the front cover is a pencil note "?R P C ?H H C". This is likely to represent R P Cooper and H H Cooper, and to be a guess at who had written in this notebook. This notebook does not appear to have belonged to William Cooper, but to one or both of these nephews who had joined in the business.

ENTRIES AS FOLLOWS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS NOTEBOOK:

p. 1 'Wheat Dressing, Revised to January 1874' - includes details of manufacture of product, quantities of raw materials used, Soda Ash (an ingredient, p. 7), Arsenic (an ingredient, p. 11), Soda (an ingredient, p. 13).

p. 15 'To Make the Wheat Dressing' - includes details of production, quantities, observations on what happened, 'To Dress the Dry Stock' (p. 23), 'Wrapping the Wheat Dressing' (p. 27), 'Whiting or putting on the under wrappers with gum' (p. 31 - "This is boys work"), 'Wrappers and Labels' (p. 35), 'Gum' (p. 39), 'Paste' (p. 43), 'Directions for use' (p. 49).

p. 52 'General Remarks Copied from Old Book' - including on use of Wheat Dressing for Barley, ingredients, effects of the product, sales of Wheat Dressing 1856-1878 (pp. 56-57), sales of Wheat Dressing by month 1872-1875 (pp. 58-61), 1876 (p. 71), 1877 (p. 78), sales of Wheat Dressing by year 1878-1881 (pp. 79-82).

p. 63 'Wheat Dressing - Selling Prices &c' - also 'Mixing the Wheat Dressing continued from page 22' (p. 66), notes on seasons 1876, 1877, 1881 (pp. 73-77), 1882 and 1884 (pp. 83-86), notes on business with Church's Chemist, Cambridge (pp. 88-89).

Enclosed in this volume are: Label for 'Cooper's Fly-Gall Dressing, for the Cure of Sore Heads and Fly Galls in Sheep' (inside rear cover); label for Wheat Dressing from Church's Chemist, Cambridge, with note on costs (fixed to p. 89); label for 'Cooper's Wheat Dressing' with directions for use (fixed to p. 34); letter dated 27 Jul 1883 re: Wheat Dressing from Chave & Jackson, Chemists, Hereford (inside front cover); note on costs of raw materials (inside front cover); letter dated 1 Aug 1883 from Barron Squire & Co, City of London, quoting price for raw material (inside front cover).

p. 6, p. 10, p. 14, pp. 25-26, p. 30, p. 33, pp. 41-42, pp. 45-46, p. 48, p. 51, p. 62, pp. 64-65, pp. 68-69, p. 70 (incorrectly marked p. 71), p. 72, and p. 87 are blank.

On the front cover of this notebook a label is affixed, 'Cooper's Wheat Dressing - The Best Known Means of Preventing Smut in Wheat' ...

c 1874 - 1884

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