100 



There may be a slight difference in food value between No. 2 (fine 

 rice sold to brewers) and extra fancy, but if any it is trifling. If rice 

 is to enter largely into the list of economic foods for the use of the 

 masses, grades must be established based on the food values and not 

 on the shine of the surface. It would be just as sensible to place a 

 price on shoes according to the polish they will take. 



LOSS BY BREAKAGE IN MILLING. 



We are now prepared to understand the loss by breakage of the ker-^ 

 nel in milling. If the grain remains whole and is sufficiently herd to 

 receive a high polish it sells for 6 J cents per pound. If it breaks it drops 

 in price 2 or 3 cents per pound, and if it crumbles so that the particles 

 will pass through a 'No. 12 seive the price is If cents per pound. The 

 question is, What is the average breakage per 100 pounds and how can 

 it be remedied? Investigations made among the rice millers in 1897 

 led to the conclusion (based upon their written statements) that the 

 perfect grains were only about 40 per cent of the total product. Eecent 

 letters addressed to the various rice mills have failed in most cases to 

 elicit the information. The president of the New Orleans Board of 

 Trade states in a letter : The second part of your letter we are unable 

 to answer as a proposition, for the reason that different mills achieve 

 different results, and there is no way by which the trade can arrive at 

 an average of the yield made by the different mills, this information 

 as a rule being carefully guarded." In the few reports received the 

 grading of the milled product was so different that no conclusion could 

 be di awn as to the relative amount obtained by the mills. In the mills 

 repoi ting, the best lots of rice milled last season showed a breakage of 

 21^ to 40 cent md the pcoreet lots showed from 65 to 100 per cent 

 breakage. The beet lots of rice gave from 100 to 112.9 pounds of milled 

 rice from 162 pounds of paddy; the poorest gave only from 63.6 to 85 

 pounds from the same quantity paddy. 



RESULTS OF MILLING. 



The following tables show the percentages obtained per barrel of 162 

 pounds by three different mills : 



Bejport of a mill having a daily capacity of 1,200 barrels. 



Grades. 



In best 

 lot. 



In poor- 

 est lot. 



No. 1 or head rice 



No. 2 or brokn rice 



Brewers' rice 



Polish 



Bran 



Hulls 





Pounds. 

 91.32 

 15.30 



6.28 



8 

 20 



21.10 



Pounds, 



59.* 82 

 3.78 

 16 

 40 



42.40 



Total 



•t* ••• 



162 



162 



This mill reports that during the milling season of 1898 Honduras 

 rice averaged 85 pounds and Japan rice 95 pounds, total product from 

 162 pounds of paddy. The rice was below the average for other years. 



