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the manufacture of the breakfast preparation known as cerealine. 

 It is very coarse. In chemical composition it resembles corn meal. 

 While no feeding tests are on record, it can be assumed to have a 

 nutritive value similar or slightly inferior to corn meal. 



Hominy Feed or Chop. — This is the by-product from the prep- 

 aration of hominy from corn. It consists essentially of the same 

 materials as cerealine, which it resembles very closely in composi- 

 tion. It is quite finely ground. The separation of hull, bran and 

 germ is said to be brought about solely by the aid of machinery 

 and steam. 



Rice Meal. — In preparing rice for human consumption, various 

 mechanical processes are employed. After the hull is removed, 

 the rice is brought into mortars holding from four to six bushels 

 each, and pounded, to remove the yellow gluey covering of the 

 grain and give it the creamy color so much desired. This pound- 

 ing really removes the chaff and some of the flour, and leaves the 

 grain but little broken. The rice is then polished to give it a 

 pearly lustre, which is effected by friction of the grains of rice 

 against tanned moose hide. That portion rubbed off is termed rice 

 polish. The chaff and flour above referred to, and in some cases 

 the polish also, are mixed and sold as rice meal for cattle feeding. 

 It is much used and highly prized in Europe, and small quantities 

 are sometimes placed on our Massachusetts markets. It resembles 

 corn meal in composition and feeding value. 



Oat Feed, Corn and Oai Chop, etc. — Oat feed is the refuse 

 from factories engaged in the preparation of oatmeal for human 

 food. It consists of poor oats, oat hulls and some of the bran 

 and starch which arc removed in the process of manufacture. In 

 some cases it is mixed with a poor quality of corn, as corn and oat 

 chop. While it has the same type of composition as corn meal, 

 it varies much in the quantity of hulls it contains, and consequently 

 in feeding value. 



Table VIII. 

 Average Composition. 



[Figures equal percentages or pounds per hundred.] 



