Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . on acres, and the yield more than13,600,000 bushels. 197. Composition. — Rice is a very starchy grain. Ahuman diet made up largely of tliis cereal should alsoinclude foods rich in nitrogen, such as seeds of cowpeasand other legumes, fish, lean meat, eggs, or milk. Thecomposition of rice and its products is shown below : — Nitro- W.\TER Ash Protein- CrudeFiber gen-free Fat Extract - <; t;. o; % .%? Prepared rice ; Rice polish . . Rice bran . .
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . on acres, and the yield more than13,600,000 bushels. 197. Composition. — Rice is a very starchy grain. Ahuman diet made up largely of tliis cereal should alsoinclude foods rich in nitrogen, such as seeds of cowpeasand other legumes, fish, lean meat, eggs, or milk. Thecomposition of rice and its products is shown below : — Nitro- W.\TER Ash Protein- CrudeFiber gen-free Fat Extract - <; t;. o; % .%? Prepared rice ; Rice polish . . Rice bran . . Rice hulls . . . Rough rice Rice straw. ^IcDonnells indicate that a rice crop of (nearly 0 bags) and 1800 pounds of ripe strawremoves from the soil, in round numbers, 12 pounds of phosphoric acid,29 pounds of nitrogen,35 pounds of potash. 1 La. Sta., Feed Stuifs Report, 1908-1909. 2 S C. Expr. Sta., Bui. No. 59. 220 SOUTHERN FIELD CROPS 198. Uses. — The chief use of rice is to feed maiildud,for which purpose it is specially prepared bj the removal ofthe hull and by other manufacturing processes. However,the polishing of the grains results in removing some of themost nutritious part. Rice polish, one of the flourlike by-products of the ricemill, is a nutritious and palatable food for any class ofli^e-stock. Rice hulls have butlittle food value and even whenground, their use is bran usually consists of theseed coats to which adheres much Figs, uo vx,, * }^ nutritious layers of theTypes of Rice. grain, mixed with some ground The Honduras on the left rice liulls and polish. It is inferior and the Japanese on the ? r r i j_ • i- i right. The short kernels of ^ feeding value to rice rice do not break 199. Varieties. — 111 Orientali^So^C^^^^ <=«-^tes there are hundreds ofvarieties of rice, but few kinds a
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