Agriculture for beginners . in the monaing while the dew is still on the grain. Thegrain shooild be threshed as soon as it is dr\ enough to gothrough the thresher. Biickwheat is girown largely for table use. The grain iscrushed into a dark iflomr that makes most palatable break-fast cakes. The grain, e^>ecMly when mixed with com, isbecoming pc^jukr for poeMij^ food. The middlings, whichare rich in fais and protein, are prized for dairy cows. FARM CROPS 2^1 SECTION XLVIII. RICE The United States produces only about one half of the ricethat it consumes. There is no satisfactory reason for our
Agriculture for beginners . in the monaing while the dew is still on the grain. Thegrain shooild be threshed as soon as it is dr\ enough to gothrough the thresher. Biickwheat is girown largely for table use. The grain iscrushed into a dark iflomr that makes most palatable break-fast cakes. The grain, e^>ecMly when mixed with com, isbecoming pc^jukr for poeMij^ food. The middlings, whichare rich in fais and protein, are prized for dairy cows. FARM CROPS 2^1 SECTION XLVIII. RICE The United States produces only about one half of the ricethat it consumes. There is no satisfactory reason for our notraising more of this staple crop, for five great states alongthe Gulf of Mexico are well adapted to its culture. There are two distinct kinds of rice, upland rice and low-land rice. Upland rice demands in general the same methodsof culture that are required bv other cereals, for example,. Fig. 221. Threshing Rice oats or wheat. The growing of lowland rice is considerablymore difficult and includes the necessit}- of flooding thefields with water at proper times. A stiff, half-clay soil with some loam is best suited to thiscrop. The soil should have a clay subsoil to retain waterand to give stiffness enough to allow the use of harvesting-machinen-. Some good rice soils are so stiff that thev mustbe flooded to soften them enough to admit of plowing. Plowdeeply to give the roots ample feeding-space. Good tillage,which is too often neglected, is valuable. Careful seed-selection is perhaps even more needed forrice than for any other crop. Consumers want kernels of thesame size. Be sure that nouf seed is free from red rice and 2 32 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS other weeds. Drilling is much better than broadcasting, asit secures a more even distribution of the seed. The notion generally prevails that flooding returns to thesoil the needed fertilit}-. This may be true if the flood
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