BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. TG 
Stick ame is made from midzu ame by pulling it many times 
so that air is mixed into it. But if the stick ame is heated to 
drive out from it the enclosed air the original color and texture 
would reappear. 
Il. Constituents of Ame. The composition of ame will appear 
from the following table : — 
Rice AME. GuutTiInous Rick AME. 
Moist. Dry. Moist. Dry. 
VCS he! Se 17.40 15.05 
DraAltone 9 58.10 70.34 50.27 59.18 
Dextrin. . .. . 23.30 28.20 32.98 38.83 
Peon... . . 0.88 1.00 1.16 1.36 
Sees... 0.05 0.06 0.08 0.09 
Peers. . O.O2 0.40 0.46 0.54 
Since the rice ame is rich in maltose and poor in dextrin it has 
a sweeter flavor than the glutinous rice ame, the flavor of which is 
weaker in consonance with the smaller quantity of maltose and 
the larger amount of dextrin in it. Since the proportion of nitro- 
genous matter in both kinds of ame is minute, this constituent 
would not readily suffer decomposition even if the ame were to be 
kept for a long time. 
III. Value of Ame. — Rice ame costs on the average 10 to 12 
cents a pound (Japanese) and the glutinous rice ame 15 to 18 
cents; therefore for one dollar we can get the following quantities. 
[One Japanese pound equals 0.6046 kilo. | 
Rick AME. GLUTINOUS Rick AME. 
OS a 5.000 kilograms. 3.000 kilograms. 
Mistosee . . °. . . 2.905 OL 1.506 6 
esti... . . . 1.166 se 0.989 a 
Peewee, ee... 0.016 es 0.014 Ob 
[One Japanese pound is equal to 1.33 pounds avoirdupois, and it is a 
matter of common report that the value of one Japanese cent is equal to 
that of half a cent of United States money; i. e., one dollar Japanese is 
equal to fifty cents of American money. It is to be presumed, furthermore, 
that the prices above given refer to the retail cost of small samples bought in 
Tokio shops. On these assumptions it would appear that the retail price of 
midzu ame made from ordinary rice does not differ materially from the retail 
price of glucose as bought in small quantities in America at the present time. | 
