IMPORTANCE AND CHARACTER OF MILLED RICE IMPORTED. 
Table III. — Results of chemical analyses of rice imported into the United States com- 
pared with the analyses of patent flour from hard spring wheat, hard winter wheat, and 
soft winter wheat, and with the analyses of "table grits" and unbolted meal made from 
white corn. 
Type and description of 
Mois- 
ture. 
Ash. 
Ether 
extract. 
Pro- 
tein. 
Crude 
fiber. 
Calculated to a moisture-free 
• basis. 
sample. 
Ash. 
Ether Pro- 
extract . tein. 
Crude 
fiber. 
Japan: 
P.ct. 
11.52 
12.21 
11.81 
11.80 
12.06 
11.81 
11.97 
11.86 
12.33 
P. ct. 
1.22 
1.31 
.79 
.55 
.55 
.38 
.74 
.40 
.89 
P.ct. 
1.92 
.43 
.29 
.13 
.20 
.21 
.18 
.17 
.25 
P.ct. 
6.75 
6.14 
7.38 
6.59 
8.06 
7.06 
8.06 
• 7.75 
7.19 
P.ct. 
1.10 
.41 
.37 
.36 
.40 
.40 
.46 
.40 
.41 
P.ct. 
1.38 
1.49 
.90 
.63 
.62 
.43 
.84 
.45 
1.02 
P.ct. 
2.17 
.49 
.33 
.15 
.23 
.24 
.20 
.19 
.29 
P.ct. 
7.63 
6.99 
8.37 
7.47 
9.17 
8.01 
9.16 
,8.79 
8.20 
P.ct. 
1.24 
Coated with talc or some 
siliceous mineral 
Glutinous, uncoated 
Grown in Italy; heavily 
.47 
.42 
.40 
Chinese: 
.46 
Siam: 
.45 
Patna: 
Coated with glucose and 
tale or some siliceous 
.51 
Java: 
.45 
Bassein: 
Coated with glucose and 
talc or some siliceous 
.47 
Hard spring wheat, patent 
flour » 
1 
.55 
.52 
-.70 
.62 
1.49 
1.34 
1.15 
1.54 
1.47 
4.61 
14.36 
11.57 
10.38 
9.38 
9.58 
Hard winter wheat, patent 
flour 2 
Soft winter wheat, patent 
flours 
1 North Dakota Experiment Station Bulletin No. 89. 1910. 
2 Kansas Experiment Station Bulletin No. 202. 1915. 
3 Department of Agriculture, Chemical Division Bulletin No. 1. 1883. 
4 United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin No. 215. 1915. 
The ash, ether extract, and crude fiber of the "brown" or partly 
milled Japan rice are very high as compared with the same con- 
stituents in other types of rice and other subdivisions of the Japan 
type. This indicates that in the ordinary method of milling rice, 
where practically all of the bran coat is removed, the percentage of 
these constituents is materially decreased. 
The Japan rice marked '"coated with talc," which has a very 
powdery surface, is shown on analysis to yield 1.49 per cent of ash. 
This is an exceedingly large ash content for milled rice, as shown 
when it is compared with that of uncoated milled rice of the same 
type grown in the United States, the ash content of which is only 
0.51 per cent. The glutinous Japan rice, which does not seem to be 
milled as deeply as the other milled rices, contains a relatively large 
quantity of ash and also shows a relatively high percentage of pro- 
tein. Of the other rice type, it is shown that as a rule the addition 
of a coating material increases the ash content but has little effect 
upon the amounts of other constituents. 
