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Beri-Beri/' by H. Fraser, M.D. & H. T. Stanton, M.D., Institute 

 for Medical Research, Fed. Malay States, pp. 1-89; pis. i.-iii. 

 (Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. Singapore). " Padi," L. A. Boodle in Kew 

 Bull. 1909, pp. 277-279 — an examination of the rice samples made 

 at the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew, in the course of the Investiga- 

 tions for the Medical Besearch Paper above. " Padi and Its 

 Relations to Beri-Beri," in Agric. Bull. Fed. Malay States, viii. 

 Oct. 1909, pp. 472-474 (from Kew Bull. I.e.). Report from the 

 Institute for Medical Research, F.M.S., for the period from 

 Oct, 1st, 1909, to March 31st, 1910— reprint in Govt. Gaz. 

 Nigeria, June 21st, 1911, Suppl. pp. 1-8. ''On the Chemical 

 Composition of Pohshed Rice," by Teizo Takakashi & Hisae 

 Sato in Journ. Coll. Agric. University of Tokyo, v. No. 2, 

 March 1913, pp. 135-152.] 



It has been estimated in the milling that 40 parts of padi 

 produce 25 parts of white rice, 5 parts of poHshings and 10 parts 

 of husk ; the poHshings are sold as food for cattle and the husks 

 are burned as fuel in the mills in Singapore (I.e. p. 3) ; they are 

 also known as " rice bran," included with the term " rice meal " 

 on which drawback of duty is allowed when produced in the 

 process of cleaning imported uncleaned rice in Australia (Bd, of 

 Trade Journ. Sept. 30th, 1909, p. 669), and about 181 lb. of rice 

 bran is obtained in the cleaning of 100 lb. of rough rice (Agric. 

 News, Barbados, Sept. 4th, 1909, p. 277). " Sugar Meal '' is 

 a name given to a mixture of rice bran, an inferior sugar and 

 crushed cotton seed that has been used for feeding to stock in 

 Barbados (I.e.). An average sample of rice meal contains about 

 10 per cent, of albuminoids, 7-3 per cent, of oil and 63-3 per 

 cent, of carbohydrates and for feeding purposes it is advisable 

 to add a small quantity of food rich in albuminous or flesh - 

 forming constituents such as cotton-seed meal or pea or bean 

 meal (I.e. June 13th, 1908, p. 184). 



Rice straw is a good fodder for stock; it contains 4-72 per 

 cent, crude protein, 32-21 per cent, carbohydrates and 1*87 per 

 cent, fats, and when well preserved the sweetness and excellent 

 flavour adds very materially to its practical feeding value (Knapp, 

 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull No. 110, 1900, p. 24). In Sherbro, 

 Sierra Leone, the rice-straw, after the grains are dra\vn out by 

 hand, is used for brooms, and also \vith other things in the 

 preparation of a potash called '' lubi " used in the manufacture 

 of country black soap (Alldridge, The Sherbro and Its Hinterland, 

 p. 95), 



Industrial or Power Alcohol from Rice Straw has been 

 suggested in rice-growing countries where the raw material is 

 available in sufficiently large quantities (Simmonds, Nature, 

 Oct. 21st, 1921, p. 245; Agric. News, Barbados, Dec. 11th, 1920, 

 p. 393), as well as from the grain — the source of " Arrack " in 

 India, " Samsha " in Hong Kong, &c. — ^which yields approxi- 

 mately the very high percentage of 78 fermentable matter (Kew 



Bull. 1912, p. 122), 



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