. The cereals in America. Grain. 374 THE CEREALS IN AMERICA. Rice straw is not highly prized as food for domestic animals on account of its lack of palatability, nor for bedding because of its coarseness. It is valued as manure for rice and other lands; the straw, together with roots and stubble, containing much the larger proportion of the ash ingredients of the plant. The so-called " rice straw " used for making hats and other articles is not rice straw but that of other cereals grown for that purpose. (490) The so-called " rice paper " of the Chinese is made from the pit
. The cereals in America. Grain. 374 THE CEREALS IN AMERICA. Rice straw is not highly prized as food for domestic animals on account of its lack of palatability, nor for bedding because of its coarseness. It is valued as manure for rice and other lands; the straw, together with roots and stubble, containing much the larger proportion of the ash ingredients of the plant. The so-called " rice straw " used for making hats and other articles is not rice straw but that of other cereals grown for that purpose. (490) The so-called " rice paper " of the Chinese is made from the pith of a tree native to the island of Formosa.^ 526. Preparation for Use. —The paddy or rough rice is prepared for use first by the removal of the husk or hull, and next by the re- moval of the cuticle or bran; the bran in this case being analogous to the bran, mid- dlings and shorts of wheat. After the cuticle and embryo have been removed the ker- nels are polished in order to enhance their glossy ap- pearance. This is believed in no way to improve the nutritive value but rather to decrease it; however, it greatly improves its commercial value. The following is a detailed account of the milling process: ^ " The processes of milling rice are quite complicated. The paddy is first screened to remove trash and foreign particles. The hulls, or chaff, are removed by rapidly revolving ' milling stones ' set about two-thirds of the langth of a rice grain apart. The produce goes over horizontal screens and blowers, which separate the light 1 U. S. Dept. of Agr., Div. of Stat. Misc. Ser. 6, p. 15. 2 The Present Status of Rice Culture in the United States. By S. A. Knapp. U. S. Dept. of Agr., Div. of Bot. Bui. 32, pp. 34-35. Rice, variety Honduras, showing steps in the mill- ing process: I, rough rice, as it comes from the threshing machine, known as paddy ; 2, same rice after it has been through the sheHer, which removes husks or flowering glume and palea ; 3, clean rice after it h
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