OR KICE-DUST. 7 



exact quantity amounted to 46.500, which, added to 12.019 of 

 water, gives 58.519 per cent of useless matters. 



It has already been mentioned that the price of this refuse per 

 ton, delivered at Cirencester, was 4, 5s. The practical question, 

 which chiefly interests the farmer, is, Will it pay to buy rice-dust 

 at this price, in preference to barley, oats, Indian corn, or any 

 other kind of corn ? We should say decidedly that it would not 

 pay at this price. Crushed oats of good quality, which can be 

 had at about 6, 6s. to 7 per ton, contain the same quantity of 

 fatty matters as rice-dust, but at least double the quantity of flesh- 

 forming constituents, and also once as much starch, gum, and 

 sugar, as rice-dust. Oats appear, therefore, at least twice as 

 valuable as this refuse ; and the price of the latter should, for this 

 reason, not be more than about 3 to 3, 5s. 



Barley-meal is not quite so nutritious as oatmeal, but, taking 

 into consideration that barley-meal does not contain so much husk 

 as oats, and comparing its composition with that of rice-dust, we 

 think that barley-meal may be considered as possessing once as 

 much value, as a feeding substance, as rice-dust, without commit- 

 ting any great practical error. Barley-meal, however, can be had 

 at 7 per ton. 



