318 Animal Report of the Consulting Chemist for 1879. 
as first-class linseed-cake, and rather less indigestible fibre. 
On the other hand, linseed-cake contains fully twice as much 
of albuminoids as rice-meal. 
Composition of Five Samples of Eice-meal. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
No- 5. 
Oil 
*Albuminoiis compounds (llesh- 
Starcli and digestible fibre 
Wooily fibre (cellulose) . . 
tMineral matter (asL) 
14-35 
10- 73 
11- 12 
48-G2 
C-83 
8-35 
12-90 
10 -GO 
10.87 
50-48 
7-40 
7-75 
10-55 
10-56 
13-18 
53-05 
5-56 
7-10 
9-65 
11-66 
14-06 
50-57 
5.S6 
8-20 
9-85 
14-51 
13-12 
45-00 
8.31 
8-61 
100-00 
100.00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 
t Including silica 
1- 78 
2- GO 
1- 74 
2- 10 
2-11 
1-05 
2-25 
2-05 
2-10 
1-80 
Judging from its composition, rice-meal is better adapted 
for fattening cattle than young stock, and is a most useful 
food for milking-covvs, in conjunction with bean-meal or decor- 
ticated-cotton, or rape-cake, or other food rich in nitrogenous 
matters. 
The sample No. 5, it will be seen, contained 14J per cent, of 
oil, which is more than occurs in most samples of first-class 
pure linseed-cake. Fearing an error might have crept into the 
oil determination, I repeated the analysis, and obtained closely 
agreeing results in both analyses. 
Occasionally rice-meal of a very inferior character is sold in 
the market. On analysis of such a meal I obtained the follow- 
ing results : — 
Composition of very inferior Bice-meal. 
Moisture 8*95 
Oil 4-C6 
*Albuminous comjrounds (flesh- forming matters).. 4"44r 
Starch and digestible fibre 40-82 
Indigestible woody fibre (cellulose) 27 '93 
fMineral matters (ash) 13-80 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen '71 
t Including silica 11-70 
The meal, it appears, consisted principally of the harsh, in- 
