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VETERINARY LECTURES 



to linseed and cotton cakes. Cattle do not take very readily to 

 either of these articles, but when once they acquire the taste they 

 thrive and do well. As milk and butter producers, palm -nut cake 

 and meal are great favourites with many dairymen and farmers 

 when used in combination with other feeding materials. 



396. Rice Meal. -There is always a considerable quantity of 

 this food on the markets. It forms a fairly good cattle food, and is 

 extensively used in many districts, but great caution is needed in its 

 purchase, as it can be bought at almost any price, and is frequently 

 adulterated and damaged. It is more used in making fancy mixed 

 meals and cakes than as a feeder by itself. 



397. Cocoa-nut Cake and Meal are made from the dried fruit 

 or flesh of the cocoa-nut, which is reduced to a rough powder by 

 machinery, and treated in much the same way as seeds are in the 

 manufacture of other cakes, the great object being to extract the 

 oil, which is very valuable, and, unlike the others, is solid, resem- 

 bling lard at ordinary temperature. The residue is a light-coloured 

 cake, having a delicious smell and nutty flavour, and is much 

 relished by all kinds of stock. It is especially valuable for dairy 

 cattle and breeding ewes in frosty weather. 



398. The analyses of cocoa-nut cakes show : 



Moisture 



Oil 



* Albuminous compounds 

 Carbonaceous principles 

 Phosphates, etc. 

 Fibre 

 Insoluble matter 



^Containing nitrogen ... 



9*60 



9-68 



20*62 



8-40 

 11-36 



20-37 



40 61 



5-00) 



I2-Q7J 

 129 



100 -00 



V26 



H. 



912 

 11-50 



36*45 

 23-69 



374 



IOO'OO 



2-48 



F.— Analysis of a sample of Egyptian cocoa-nut cake, but not so rich in oil 



as English-made cakes. 

 G. — Analysis of cocoa-nut cake. 

 H. — Analysis of palm-nut cake. 

 G. and H. both English-made cakes. 



