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per cent; albuminoids, 10.75 per cent; oil, 2 per cent; indigestible fiber, 

 10.75 per cent; ash, 1.75 per cent; digestible carbohydrate's, 62.75 per 

 cent. 



MAIZE (INDIAN CORN). 



For some reason the number of samples of maize offered for analysis 

 by the judges of awards was very small, and the great maize-producing 

 States of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, as well as many Jiers, are not 

 represented at all in the samples analyzed. The few samples which 

 were received, however, were of very fine quality and may be taken as 

 fairly representative of the best maize products of the localities repre- 

 sented. The former work of the Department in the analysis of samples 

 of maize is very comprehensive. The bulletins in which the results 

 of these analyses were printed viz, ISTos. 1, 4, and 9 have had a wide 

 circulation, and have been taken as containing the data necessary to 

 form an estimate of the character of the maize products of this country. 

 The deficiency, therefore, in the samples offered for analysis at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition can be supplied by referring to the 

 analyses made at a former period. This deficiency is not due to any 

 lack of samples which were on exhibition, but simply to the failure of 

 the judges to deliver the samples for examination. By reason of the 

 fact that it was impossible to make an analysis of all the samples exam- 

 ined by the judges, it was deemed best by them to select only those 

 which were peculiarly typical. While this was practiced with other 

 cereals with reasonable success, for some reason they failed to apply this 

 rule in the case of the samples of maize, and therefore the largest maize- 

 producing regions of the United States are unrepresented. The detailed 

 analyses of the samples delivered to the chemical laboratory follow. 



