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Title: Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Burkett, Charles William, 1873-
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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justwhat the rice plant likes. The water is withdrawnsometimes previous to harvesting, to allow the soilto become thoroughly dry that the harvesting ma-chines may be drawn easily over the land. Whenthe straw begins to turn yellow, it is ready forcutting. If machinery cannot be used, the sickleis used. After being cut the rice is bound intosheaves and laid on the stubbles to dry. It is latershocked as in the case of wheat. The next opera-tion is threshing, which is usually by machine justas with other cereals. The yield varies from 20 to40 bushels to the acre. On the whole, appliances are becoming more andmore available so that farm hulling now has be-come a sort of established rule. The rice mills arecomplicated afifairs. Not only must the grain betaken from the straw, but the light grains must beseparated from the heavy; the weeds must be re-moved, the hulls separated, and the grain must bepolished and graded and placed in sacks ready forshipment to market. Rice is usually graded as
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RICE 207 whole rice or heads; scant heads or straits; brokenrice or screenings; and brewers rice. This last isused in manufacturing beer. The most serious obstacle to rice growing areweeds. Wild rice and red rice are both weeds inthe regular rice field. If these get into the cul-tivated varieties they reduce the value of the crop.To avoid this trouble, it is necessary that onlyclean seed, positively free from red rice, be used.The rice grain after leaving the mill is graded, thebetter grains being used for human consumption.A by-product from the preparation of rice is knownas rice meal and has considerable value as a stockfeed. The rice hulls have little feeding value. Inthe past, they have been very greatly used as anadulterant in many kinds of cattle feeds. Addingrice hulls to these feeds now is a fraud and in moststates is not permitted. Rice straw is used sim-ilarly with wheat straw. RUTABAGAS.—As a winter food for live stockrutabagas have a wide range of adaptation. Likerape, t

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