. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 46 The World's Commercial Products added to it. The wIkjIu mass is stirred live or six tinies a day witii tlie big wooden spatula, at wliicli the secfind fermentation inimediafely begins, and is eiieeked after five or six days- by pouring the liquid into another vessel. In about twelve days the sake is ready for use. The whole preparation tlius takes a
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 46 The World's Commercial Products added to it. The wIkjIu mass is stirred live or six tinies a day witii tlie big wooden spatula, at wliicli the secfind fermentation inimediafely begins, and is eiieeked after five or six days- by pouring the liquid into another vessel. In about twelve days the sake is ready for use. The whole preparation tlius takes about a niontii. Sake is sold in casks which in their turn are again packed in a straw cover, so that the\' resemble bales of rice. Sake contains about thirteen per cent, of alcohol ; the Japanese usually drink it hot out of very small porcelain cups. It is sold in bottles of ponelain, earthenware, or glass. The Japanese drink snke- at the beginning of a meal, and it is an important beverage at weddings. The Chinese also ]nepare an alcoholic drink from rice containing about per cent, of alcohol, and made in less lime than the sake of the Japanese. In Java an arrack is made from rice by the action of a substance known locally as " raggi," the active agent in- which is apparently anotlier kind of mould. The Dyaks in Central Borneo also prepare a sort of arrack from rice. f ? WILD RICE Over a large area of the United States, Southern Canada, and also in Japan, Formosa, and China, there occurs, usually in sluggish streams and along the edges of lakes, a tall grass known as the \Vild Rice plant, and botanically called Zizaiiia aquatica. It has been estimated by the botanists of the United States Department of .Agriculture that this plant. JAPAN. MAKING USE OF THE BAMBOO TO LIGHTEN THE LABOUR OF HUSKING RICE .. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and app
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