CHAPTEE IX. 



MINOR CEREALS, OIL-BEARING AND LEGUMINOUS SEEDS AND 

 THEIR BY-PRODUCTS. 



I. Rice and its By-products. 

 Digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents. 



190. Parts of the rice grain. The rice grain is not directly used 

 for stock feeding, but its by-products from the mills in the South 

 are available in considerable quantity for that purpose. Accord- 

 ing to Boss, l the products from 162 pounds of rough rice are as 



follows: 



95 pounds clean rice, all grades. 



8 pounds polish. 

 30 pounds bran. 

 29 pounds chaff, straw, trash, dust, etc. 



191. By-products of rice. Eice hulls are so woody that they are 

 not useful for feeding purposes except in periods of great scarcity 

 of coarse provender. Eice bran, composed of the outside of the 

 rice grain and more or less of the germ, is of moderate feeding 

 value for dairy cows and pigs. Eice polish, a dust-like powder, 

 is rich in nutritive elements, and very valuable for feeding cows, 

 pigs, etc. It is rich in both nitrogen and phosphoric acid, and 

 hence a valuable manure results from using this feed. Accord- 



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