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Table 31, Crude Fibre. 



Pentosane and crude fibre constitute a rather high percentage 

 of the entire plant, even at the young stage, and their percentages 

 vary in a different manner from those of starch and protein throuhg- 

 out the plant's life. As described before, starch gradually increases 

 in percentage throughout the life of the rice plant ; whereas protein 

 has a gradual decrease after the rather rapid reduction of its percent- 

 age which occurs cither at an early stage of the plant's life or after 



