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There was no rule followed in the placing of the sacks: 

 just as luck would have it, the 4 sacks came to lie above 

 or mixed up with each other. 



Only towards the end of the second month — and that 

 only in the unpolished rice — weevils began to appear, as 

 yet however only in small numbers. After 3'/ 2 months of 

 storage this number was considerably increased, although 

 there was as yet no question of a serious corrosion of the 

 grain. When the rice was washed, it appeared then already 

 how the silver-skin — unprotected as it was by its own 

 husk — had been modified in physical sense, how much more 

 brittle it had become, in consequence of which it more easily 

 became loose and fell off. 



In the beginning of the 6 th month of storage — resp. 

 after the milling — the above named changes in the unpolished 

 rice had assumed serious dimensions. The grains were in 

 a high degree attacked by weevils and moths: many of 

 them had holes and some were already quite hollowed out. 

 These depredations, which were the cause of a considerable 

 forming of powder, had attained such dimensions that the 

 deterioration in taste and smell already noticed was, in 

 comparison, scarcely to be considered. A great drawback caused 

 by this corrosion was that considerable loss was sustained 

 in winnowing, and that there was necessarily great loss 

 during the washing process, if a sticky and paplike appearance 

 of the cooked rice was to be avoided. 



Proofs taken on rice-birds showed however that this 

 unpolished rice, after 5 months storage, had forfeited compa- 

 ratively little of its therapeutic and prophylactic value with 

 regard to polyneuritis. On the other hand, the deterioration 

 after 6 months storage was distinctly noticeable. 



On that account therefore,- because of the conspicuous 

 external changes which were of more importance than the 

 deterioration in smell and taste,- the limit for a satisfactory 

 storage of unpolished rice was to be considered as already 

 far exceeded in 5 months. 



