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noid matters, 4.5 per cent of fat, 12 per cent of indigestible fiber, 3.5 per 

 cent of ash, and 58 per cent of starch and other soluble carbohydrates. 



RICE. 



It is rather difficult from the data accessible to draw any valuable 

 conclusions in regard to the composition of rice. This cereal may 

 reach the analyst in three different states, viz, unhulled, hulled, and 

 polished. He may also have occasion to examine the broken fragments 

 produced in polishing and hulling, the waste in manufacture, rice 

 bran, and other products. The most important of these products are 

 the unhulled and polished rice in the one case the product as it comes 

 from the thrasher and in the other as prepared for the kitchen. 



The number of samples of all kinds delivered by the judges for 

 analysis was only 28, of which only a few were domestic samples. 

 The composition of these samples, arranged by classes and countries, 

 is shown in the table on the following page. 





