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remarked; on the ot 

 smell and taste had 

 investigation. 



Although this rice might even now be eaten, it must be 

 admitted that the limit for its tastiness had been exceeded. 



The other polished kinds of rice, which had been stored 

 under precisely the same conditions, had not lost any of 

 their original properties during these 5 months of storage 



The favourable conclusions which were to be drawn from 

 these experiments with regard to the us*' of unpolished 

 rice — conditional on its being stored indi-r favourable 

 circumstances and for not longer than 4 months were so 

 unexpected after the already mentioned complaints, that, 

 long before the material was collected, plans had been made 

 to compensate in another manner the deficiency in silver-skin 

 (polishings). This was to try to make an appetising bread 

 from the refuse containing the polishings. Although the 

 proofs taken with this view might now be left without mention, 

 especially as the results obtained were negative, still a short 

 account of them is not to be considered as superfluous. 



The first and coarsest refuse from the husking of the 

 rice grains, as well as the second kind (dedek loenteh) 

 produced by further milling, is only utilized for fodder for 

 cattle and pigs. Only the finest kind of dedek (bekatoel), 

 obtained during the last polishing process, is taken into 

 use by the natives, and is bought by them for the price 

 of + 5 cents (a penny) per kilo. Of this they generally 

 make delicacies (dainty-bits) by mixing it into dough with 

 water, which dough is rolled up in banana leaves, and baked 

 in the embers. Doubtless this finest kind of bran, consisting 

 principally of starch, might be used for making bread, 

 when mixed with wheatflour. However, the small quantity 

 obtained (2%) and besides this the comparatively small 

 proportion of polishings present, made the practical value 

 of proofs with this product illusive, so that these proofs 

 were abandoned. 



