332 Vitamines and Deficiency Diseases [June-September 



Data pertaining to milled maize (^97 percent of the total grain). See page 331. 



1. Whole maize grain. 



2. Highly milled meal, 



86% 



3. First milling from 



No. 2 



4. Second milling from 



No. 2 



5. Slightly milled 



meal, 97% 



9. Bran from 5, above 





4-5 



3-87 



4.66 



12.79 



4.21 

 1.86 



a 



c9 



3-88 



336 



4.18 



11.09 



o 



U 



o 



Ph 



'S 



a 



0.247 

 0.22 



0.357 

 0.438 



0.0154 

 0.0098 

 0.0164 

 0.0353 



Color- 

 reaction: 

 Polin and 

 Macallum 



Alcoholic 

 extract 



Hot 



3.63I0. 233:0.0153 

 i.58|o.27i]o.oo84 



0.35 



0.23 



i.oo 



0.70 



0.30 

 0.35 



Cold 



0.55 

 0.4s 

 1.00 

 0.60 



0.45 

 0.70 



During the process of milling, a large part of these layers is milled 

 away, as is shown by the figures in the above table. 



Pigeons were fed this highly milled maize for several weeks, 

 but they remained in perfect health and differed totally in their be- 



DlAGRAM OF A SeCTION OF A MaIZE GrAIN 



5": Skhi. E: Endosperm. A: Aleurone layers. G: Germ 



havior from fowls which, according to Ohler, develop, on such a 

 diet, a disease that he considered identical with beriberi, Driscoll 

 (85) observed that chickens, fed on maize with the outer layer re- 

 moved, developed erythema on the legs, and acquired a disease simi- 



