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and an attendant pours a small quantity of hot water on it, and 
on squeezing oe hands tightly together the oil and water run out. 
Since the great demand for, and trade in the ground-nut, but 
little oil is prepared by the race as they find it more advan- 
cnanes to sell the nuts than to extract the oil from them by the 
teful process I have just dleseribed.” 
O1L-CAKE. 
After the expression of _ - a rich cake remains. This has 
been extensively used as an mal food, and when more or less 
free from spe gs s of Joelle ‘and adulterants such as the starchless 
crushed seeds the poppy fhigh 
Naturally the composition of the cake varies considerably 
according to the degree of completeness in which the oil has been 
removed. Subjoined mt ue analyses, drawn from various sources 
in the sixth column is the mean of seven closely similar saiileee 
given by Dr. Uhlitasch (hee .y p. 413). 
rae as mae we Ol : ts oe 5 Last © p 
ease | 2 (Eas [fee | ERs [Bk lee 
pare | § Sar | SH Ss \=2eSa 
Ssog| LL st As | BG | esos? 
a eye; ~S | Ss | 98) £8 2385s 
uBanS) 8% | Ede .| S252) Se5 at S| 
cer °Sae0) AE | [38s \ades| S38 | akads 
eigas| “a | sseg|Sigd| 724 |"oede 
Ssche| . Se Beas | ar 3e S.-85 | 23.398 
aVir85| 2S on > Fase B-- S2a0qn 
Sukse) Sa | S¥8E| Seas | 2828 | BE Sak 
: o. ea Sno ccn | eer Tae 
aes ae pats ' eared gnse (BREE 
Water ... Ne pb Bt 96 810 9°58 10°10 8°6 
Oil meet ns ave See 11°8 7°26 740 9°16 74 
Nitrogenous Matter ... | 47°26 31°9 47°81 42°81 48°55 48-1 
Starch and digestible | 19°06 37°8 25°02 27°63 | 22°53 23°5 
re, 
Indigestible fibre... 3°90 4:3 4°86 787 4°73 51 
Ash. es Sos ae oS 4°6 6°95 | 4°71 4°93 59 
All these ners in allowing an extreme richness to the cake, one 
this is borne ou = experiments in stock feeding which need n 
be detaile 
food when famin ie presses in India; Handy speaks of its use in 
the Southern States between 1861 and 1865 (7c. p. 21). Of 
further interest are the attempts to use it in the e way in 
. t advocate was Dr. Mu Ww nalysis is 
rs, 
quoted above ; a second is Dr. Nérdlinger. Both avail nemnente 
of the rad of much of the oil to obtain a highly ous 
and nutritious food, not over rich in one of the aa ‘of a 
balanced diet. 
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