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Cottonseed-meal. — A sample of whole-seed cotton-meal, from 
which the oil had not been expressed, was submitted to me. 
The analysis of it was : — 
Moisture 10 '36 
Oil 21-76 
* Albuminous compounds 18 • 37 
Digestible fibre, &c 26-68 
Woody fibre 18-50 
Mineral matter 4-33 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 2-94 
The analysis shows the meal to have been very rich in oil, 
but at the same time there was so much cotton left with the 
seed (which in consequence of the quantity of oil tended to clog 
considerably) that I should have been rather afraid of giving 
such a meal to stock. The price of this was 71. 8s. 4c?. per ton, 
delivered. 
Rice and Feeding -meals. — I have had occasion previously to 
note the variations that occur in the quality of rice-meal. A 
sample of rice-meal was forwarded to me which I was informed 
was warranted " pure," but with respect to which it was stated 
that it was very inferior to any meal purchased before, and that 
beasts would not eat it. My analysis of the meal was : — 
Rice-Meal. 
Feeding-Meal. 
Oil 
*Albuminous compounds 
Starch, digestible fibre, &c 
7-60 
7- 30 
8- 19 
53-43 
13-80 
9- 68 
9-65 
5- 40 
9-14 
35-88 
33-33 
6- 60 
100-00 
100-00 
1-31 
1-46 
The rice-meal — though the whole of it came from rice, and 
could not therefore be said to be adulterated — was nevertheless 
of poor quality. Besides being low both in oil and in nitro- 
genous compounds, it contained a very high amount of indi- 
gestible fibre, and had evidently been made from the coarser 
part of the grain ; 6 to 7 per cent, of fibre is about the amount 
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