101 



Eeport of one of the largest mills in the United States. 



Grades. 



xSest 

 grade. 



Medium 

 grade. 



Low 

 grade. 



Head 



Partly broken 

 Yery broken 

 Brewers' 







Pounds. 

 70 

 15 

 12 



4 



Pounds. 

 55 

 20 

 12 

 6 



Pound?. 

 30 

 25 

 20 

 10 



Total 







101 



93 



85 



Eeport 



of a mill having 



a daily capac.itig of 200 barrels. 





Grades. 



In best 

 lot. 



In poor- 

 est lot. 



Head rice 



Slightly broken 



Very broRen 



Bran 



Polish 



Hulls 









Pounds. 

 60 

 30 

 10 

 25 

 5 

 32 



Pounds. 



"*60 

 15 



35 

 8 



44: 



Total 









162 



162 



Note. — There is a difference in these reports; one mill shows the best 

 and poorest grades, and the others the best and poorest special lots milled. 

 Two of the mills show that in the poorest lots of rice milled there was no 

 head rice and the third mill reports onl}' 30 pounds in low-grade rice. 



Mr, G. G. Bauer, manager of the Lake Charles Rice Milling Co., 

 states that : 



Aside from the larger percentage of head prodii(;ed by the batter class 

 of rough rices, its value ia the clean, oq account of its superior quality, is 

 much greater than that of head produced from medium or low grades. It 

 is for this additional reason that fine rough rices always commaad such 

 comparatively big prices. 



The total loss by breakage in the United States approximates ^2,000,000 

 -annually. A large proportion of this can be saved by selecting batter 

 seed ; by more careful attention to field management in the production 

 of the crop, and by more care in curing and threshing. 



RICE MILLING IN EUROPE. 



The United States consul at Bremen, Hon. George Keenan, writes as 

 follows in regard to rice milling in Germany : 



Form and value of the rice imported. — Kice is never imported into Bre- 

 men in the form of paddy in the strict sense of that term. It is mainly im- 

 ported in the husk form, broken and whole, uncleaned. It has the shell 



