Annual Report for 1913 of the Consulting Chemist. 365 
China Rice Meal (cooked). 
Moisture 
Oil 
1 Albuminoids ..•••• 
Starch and digestible carbohydrates . 
Woody Fibre .••••• 
2 Mineral matter . 
7-00 
13-33 
13-62 
33-93 
5-25 
26-87 
100-00 
1 Containing nitrogen . 
2 Including sand and silica . 
Including carbonate of lime 
2-18 
2-53 
23-20 
5. Bastol Cake. 
Samples of this class of cake, which, as I have previously 
remarked, is composed largely of treated wood-pulp or sawdust 
with the addition of some food-stuffs, continue to be sent to 
me. The following is the analysis of a sample received from 
a Member who complained that his cattle and sheep did not 
care to eat it : — 
Moisture . 
Oil . 
1 Albuminoids 
Soluble carbohydrates 
Woody fibre 
2 Ash . • 
10-87 
8-88 
27-38 
31-77 
14-57 
6-53 
100-00 
1 Containing nitrogen . 
2 Including sand . 
This was a sample of u Bastol special 
it was sold at SI. a ton. 
4-38 
1-94 
fattening cake,” and 
6, Sugar-beet Pulp. 
Under the name of “ Protos,” a new material, which consists 
of the dried pulp of sugar beet after extraction of the sugar, 
has been put upon the market. The following is the analysis 
of a sample sent me : — 
Moisture . 
Oil . 
Albuminoids 
Digestible carbohydrates, &c. 
Woody fibre 
2 Ash . 
1 Containing nitrogen . 
2 Including sand . 
8-66 
•93 
6-38 
66-58 
12-87 
4-58 
100-00 
1-02 
1-29 
