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Rice-meal is a capital food to mix with a highly nitrogenous 
and concentrated substance such as decorticated cotton-cake, or 
with bean or pea-meal. 
Cocoanut-Mea I. — 
ANALYSES of Two Samples of Cocoa-xtt Meal. 
No. 
1. 
Ho. 
2. 
9 
60 
8 
63 
Oil 
11 
03 
3 
50 
♦Albuminous compounds 
21 
75 
20 
56 
Mucilage, digestible fibre, &c 
41 
14 
48 
23 
8 
83 
12 
60 
7 
65 
6 
48 
100 
00 
100 
00 
3 
48 
3 
29 
These two samples, it will be noticed, differ greatly in the 
percentage of oil they severally contain, and yet No. 2 was 
bought at 5/. 15s. per ton, the price of a good sample such 
as No. 1. 
Maize Germ. — Under the name " Germ," or more recently 
" Maize Germ " (though often incorrectly termed " Wheat 
Germ "), a new feeding substance of considerable value has 
come into notice. It is stated to be obtained by a new roller- 
system, instead of by using mill-stones. I have analysed several 
samples of it as follows : — 
No. 1. 
Ko. 2. 
No. 3. 
Oil 
12-85 
10-57 
29-37 
40-79 
1-67 
4-75 
11-97 
8-13 
24 19 
48-99 
2-43 
4-29 
1105 
7-80 
17-56 
58-43 
4-46 
•70 
100 00 
100-00 
100-00 
4-70 
3-87 
2-61 
This is a very suitable food for horses, and may be used also 
for milking-cows and fattening stock with advantage, if pur- 
chased at a reasonable price. 
The low price of wheat has caused wheat-meal to be to some 
extent used for feeding. Similarly, depression in the sugar- 
