FEEDING JJY-rKODUCTS 385 



By this table rice meal apparently has a feeding value 

 for swine sligiitly above that of corn meal, and, allowing 

 for the variations that will occur with different lots of 

 pigs, it may be said to be of practically the same value as 

 corn meal. An experiment at the Massachusetts station 

 (Report of 1896) showed that when equal weights of 

 corn meal and rice meal were fed with skim milk to 

 different pigs of equal age the gain was exactly the 

 same. 



According to the bulletin of the South Carolina sta- 

 tion, ''the rice meal is a by-product of the rice mills, and 

 consists largely of rice flour, rice polish, and rice bran. 

 As yet the mills have no uniform way of putting it on 

 the market, and in order that the reader may understand 

 \\'hat we mean by rice meal as used in this experiment, 

 we might say that it is all the by-product obtained in 

 cleaning the rice grain for the market. Its chemical an- 

 alysis shows that it has a])out the same amount of pro- 

 tein, carbohydrates and fat as corn meal." 



Rice polish and rice bran return good results in feed- 

 ing hogs, but are not always easy to obtain, as the millers 

 prefer to mix them with the hulls, and the mixture has 

 a materially depreciated feeding value. The practical 

 value of rice meal is more or less dependent upon the 

 amount of cheap by-product that has been mixed in it. 

 The Alabaiua station reported in Bulletin No. 122 a 

 number of tests of rice polish which showed its high 

 feeding value when the quality is good. In these tests 

 100 pounds of gain were produced from an average of 

 ^y;^ pounds of rice polish, as compared with 474 pounds 

 of corn meal. "At this rate," the bulletin summarizes, 



