The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-12-03
RICE BY PRODUCTS
Valuable Feeding stuffs for
Horses and Mules.
market Your Low-erade Rice on the
Hoof" is Advice of Farmer Who
Found 1t Valuable Food for
Live Stock.
By C. GRAHAM wHITE.)


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 tosa ration of cotton-seed
meal, cotton-seed hulls, and alfalfa
nay, 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 a 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 miIled in order that the hull
and cuticle 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 Rounds)
should produce about 100 pounds
clean rice, pounds rice polish, 20
pounds rice bran and 35 pounds chaff
or bulls. 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 it is mixture of bran.
polish and bulls, and hence it varies
SO much in composition that its feed
ing value is problematicaI without
a guaranteed chemical analysis.
Rice bulls are the outer covering
of the grain and are composed mainly
of fiber and mineral matter. They
are worthless as a feed, and when
fed in large quantities are positively
harmful Rice hulls are often used
for adu1terating 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 hulls,
which varies it's feeding value con-
siderab1y 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 IL it is perfectly
sweet, but if it becomes at all rancid
cattle do not like it.
Rice polish is the -four removed
from the rice kernel in giving it a
pearly luster that the trade demands.
It is sometimes used as stufing 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
ration for steers In fattening expert
ments resulted in increasing the rate
of gain, while the cost was slightly
reduced.