St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-12-10
RICE BY PRODUCTS
Valuable Feeding Stuffs for
Horses and Mules.
market Your Low-Grade Rice on the
hoof" ss Advice Of Farmer Who
Found It Valuable Food for
Live Stock.
(By C. GRAHAM WHITLEY

(By G. GRAHAM WH1TE)
With the rapid extension of the
rice-growing area in the southern
states and the increase in price Of
corn and other feeds, rice and its
products have become of considerable
Importance In making up rations for
live stock.
Many farmers feed rice in the sheaf
with good results. Rough rice as it
comes from the threshing machine,
when added to a ration of cotton-seed
meal. cotton-seed hulls, and alfalfa
hay, in steer-feeding experiments in
the south produced slightly larger
gains In weight, but at an increased
cost.
The experience OF practical farmers
shows that both white and red rice
are valuable feeding stuffs for work
horses and mules, fattening steers,
dairy cows, and swine, but that the
best grades Of white rice are often too
high in price to be so utilized.
AS rule, low-grade rice and bro
ken rice are worth more to feed stock
than to market at the low prices
which they usually bring. Market
your low-grade rice On the hoof," is
the advice Of practical farmer who
has had experience in feeding it. But
1t will pay to feed the higher grade
to stock only during an era of low
prices.
Rice straw as stock food is about
equal to that of good southern prairie
hay. The sweetness and excellent fla
vor Of well preserved rice straw adds
materially to its feeding value, be-
cause the stock will consume large
quantities of it.
Rice is milled in order that the hull
and cpticle may be removed and the
surface Of the grain may be polished.
The by-products which result from
milling consists of bulls, bran, and
polish. One bag of rice (162 pounds)
should produce about 100 pounds
clean rice, 7 pounds rice polish, 20
pounds rice bran and IS pounds chaff
or hulls. Grits or broken grains of
rice are found in the bran and pol
ish.
Rice meal should consist Of pure
rice bran, but as usually found on
the market 1t Is a mixture of bran,
polish and hulls, and hence It varies
SO much in composition that its feed
Ing value Is problematical without
a guaranteed chemical analysis
Rice hulls are the outer covering
of the grain and are composed mainly
Of fiber and mineral matter. They
are worthless as feed, and when
fed In large quantities are positively
harmful. Rice bulls are often used
for adulterating molasses and other
mixed feeds.
Rice bran consists OF the outer lay
er Of the rice kernel, together with
some OF the germ, and in pure state
Is the most nutritious of the rice
feeds. Unfortunately commercial rice
bran often contains more or less bulls,
which varies it's feeding value con-
sfderably. Rice bran has been fed
with success to horses and mules in
Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere in
the south. A good rice bran as food
for cattle is somewhat better than
corn or corn meal if it is perfectly
sweet, but If it becomes at all rancid
cattle do not like 1t.
Rice polish Is the -four removed
from the rice kernel in giving it
pearly luster that the trade demands
1t Is sometimes used as stuf1ng ma
terial in the manufacture of sausage.
A considerable amount of the polish
made in this country is exported to
Germany. where it is made into but
tons. Rice polish, when substituted
for part Of the cotton-seed meal in
a ration for steers in fattening expert
ments resulted in increasing the rate
Of gain, while the cost was slightly
reduced.