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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 tunned 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 Oat 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 are removed in the proc- 

 ess of manufacture. In some cases it is mixed with corn, 

 as corn and oat chop. While it has the same type of com- 

 position 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.] 



Excepting rice meal, the digestibility of the above feeds 

 has not been determined, but it is probably slightly below 

 corn meal. Oat feed would frequently show a decidedly 

 inferior digestibility. 



