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the<Runsque^nuts,":which have a bright flesh, and on 

 account of the high quality of the oil, the nuts are 

 carefully shelled and the brown skin removed. 

 Then comes the " German " meal made from well- 

 cleaned and skinned nuts, and finally the " Mar- 

 seilles " variety, which is a less carefully prepared 

 product, and usually contains 2-3% of sand. 



Good earth-nut cake and meal should have a 

 sweet, bean-like taste and a sweet smell ; the colour 

 varies between greyish- white and reddish-brown. 

 In general this is a palatable and satisfactory food, 

 but lately repeated cases of disturbance of the 

 digestive organs, violent colic, and even death by 

 poisoning have been noticed, where inferior material 

 was certainly not the cause. In some cases, but 

 not by any means in all, the cause was proved to be 

 castor-oil meal (p. 204). 



Milch and fattening cattle may be given up to 

 4lbs. per head per day, horses up to 3 Ibs., fattening 

 sheep and pigs from i-i^ Ibs. and young stock 

 smaller quantities in proportion. 



Sesame cake is made from various coloured, 

 unhulled seeds of several varieties of the sesame 

 plant. The cakes are an excellent feed, and in 

 digestibility and palatableness they closely re- 

 semble linseed cake ; like them they have also a 

 sedative action on the digestive organs. Although 

 they tend to cause softness of the butter they are 

 a highly prized food for dairy cattle, and they have 



