320 Annual Report of Ike Consulting Chemist for 1885. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
No. 5. 
Oil 
'Albuminous compounds .. 
Digestible fibre, &c 
* Containing nitrogen 
7 '68 
7-70 
45.94. 
27-23 
4-87 
6-58 
8- 33 
9- 83 
47-93 
20-68 
4-60 
8-63 
Meal. 
8- 95 
9- 60 
45-31 
24-94 
3-90 
7-30 
7-83 
23-97 
5-23 
7-38 
9-57 
^ / Do 
22-50 
313 
8-62 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
7-35 
7-67 
7-25 
7-61 
The samples of decorticated cotton-cake, I should say, have 
been found very pure, though very variable in quality. 
Undecorticated Cotton-cakes have not shown any great varia- 
tions or impurities. In a few cases excessive sand has been 
found, but the chief objection arises from the fact that fre- 
quently a considerable quantity of cotton-seed wool has been left 
still adhering to the seed, and also that the husk is sometimes far 
too coarsely ground. Both these causes are productive of harm 
to stock, the wool and husk frequently collecting together, and 
producing stoppage and inflammation. 
Feeding Meals, Compound Cakes, Sfc. — A considerable number 
of these have been analysed. Last year attention was drawn to 
the variation in the quality of different rice-meals, and this has 
been again marked : — 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
Rangoon. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
No. 5. 
Oil 
•Albuminous compounds.. 
10-G9 
8-13 
10-44 
5G-02 
7-73 
6-99 
8-30 
8-83 
8-87 
42-92 
18-83 
12-25 
10- 10 
9-87 
11- 94 
55-24 
6-10 
6-75 
9-69 
14-53 
12-33 
50-16 
4-60 
8-69 
9-23 
'15-26 
10-56 
50-56 
4-91 
9-48 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100 00 
100 00 
* Containing nitrogen 
1-67 
1-42 
1-91 
1-97 
1-69 
The very high percentage of husk left in No. 2 is specially 
noticeable. The prices of the above samples differed but 
slightly. At present, rice-meal is the cheapest source of food 
of a starchy nature for stock. 
