10 The Bulletin. 



Buckwheat Shorts or Bucl'wheat Middlings are that portion of the 

 buckwheat grain immediately inside of the hull after separation from 

 the flour. 



Rice Bran is the cuticle beneath the hull. 



Rice Hulls'Sive the outer chaffy coverings of the rice grain. 



Rice Polish is the finely powdered material obtained in polishing the 

 kernel. 



Oat Groats are the kernels of the oat berry with the hulls removed. 



Oat Hidls are the outer chaffy coverings of the oat grain. 



Oat Middlings are the floury portion of the oat groat obtained in the 

 milling of rolled oats. 



Oat Shorts are the covering of the oat grain lying immediately inside 

 the hull, being a fuzzy material carrying with it considerable portions 

 of the fine floury part of the groat obtained in the milling of rolled oats. 



Clipped Oat By-Product (term oat clippings not recognized) is the 

 resultant by-product obtained in the manufacture of clipped oats. It 

 may contain light, chaffy material broken from the ends of the hulls, 

 empty hulls, light, immature oats and dust. It must not contain an 

 excessive amount of oat hulls. 



Corn Bran is the outer coating of the corn kernel. 



Corn Feed Meal is the sifting obtained in the manufacture of cracked 

 corn and table meal made from the whole grain. 



Corn Germ Meal is a product in the manufacture of starch, glucose 

 and other corn products and is the germ layer from which a part of the 

 corn oil has been extracted. 



Grits are the hard, flinty portions of Indian corn without hulls and 

 germ. 



Hominy Meal, Hominy Feed, or Hominy Chop is a mixture of the 

 bran coating, the germ and a part of the starchy portion of the corn 

 kernel obtained in the manufacture of hominy grits for human consump- 

 tion. 



*Corn Gluten Meal is that part of commercial shelled corn that re- 

 mains after the separation of the larger part of the starch, the germ 

 and the bran by the processes employed in the manufacture of corn- 

 starch and glucose. It may or may not contain com solubles. 



*Corn Gluten Feed is that portion of commercial shelled corn that 

 remains after the separation of the larger part of the starch and the 

 germ by the processes employed in the manufacture of cornstarch and 

 glucose. It may or may not contain corn solubles. 



*Cottonseed Meal is a product of the cottonseed only, composed prin- 

 cipally of the kernel with such portion of the hull as is necessary in the 

 manufacture of oil : Provided that nothing shall be recognized as cot- 

 tonseed meal that does not conform to the foregoing definition and that 

 does not contain at least 36 per cent of protein. 



* Choice Cottonseed Meal must be finely ground, not necessarily 

 bolted, perfectly sound and sweet in odor, yellow, free from excess of 

 lint, and must contain at least 41 per cent of protein. 



*Prime Cottonseed Meal must be finely ground, not necessarily bolted, 

 of sweet odor, reasonably bright in color, yellow, not brown or reddish, 

 free from excess of lint, and must contain at least 38.6 per cent protein. 



Those marked thus* have not been considered or accepted by the N. C. Board of Agriculture. 



