. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 534 RICE RICE Fodder Crops, Chapman & Hail, London ; W. M. Hays, Rape — Test of Varieties, Bulletin No. 46, Minnesota Experiment Station; A. S. Hitchcock, Rape as a Forage Crop, Farmers' Bulletin No. 164, United States Department of Agriculture; John A. Craig, The Rape Crop, Its Growth and Value for Soiling and Fattening Sheep and Swine, Bulletin No. 58, Wisconsin Experiment Station ; Forage and Fodders, Report, Kansas State Board of Agri- culture, Quarter Ending March, 1900 ; J. H. Gris- dale. The Rape Plant: Its Culture, Use and Valu
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 534 RICE RICE Fodder Crops, Chapman & Hail, London ; W. M. Hays, Rape — Test of Varieties, Bulletin No. 46, Minnesota Experiment Station; A. S. Hitchcock, Rape as a Forage Crop, Farmers' Bulletin No. 164, United States Department of Agriculture; John A. Craig, The Rape Crop, Its Growth and Value for Soiling and Fattening Sheep and Swine, Bulletin No. 58, Wisconsin Experiment Station ; Forage and Fodders, Report, Kansas State Board of Agri- culture, Quarter Ending March, 1900 ; J. H. Gris- dale. The Rape Plant: Its Culture, Use and Value, Bulletin No. 42, Central p]xperimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada ; The Book of Rothamsted Experi- ments, Compiled by A. D. Hall, John Murray, London (1905); Wm. T. Brannt, Animal and Vege- table Fats and Oils, Henry Carey Baird & Com- pany, Philadelphia. RICE. Oryza sativa, Linn. Gramineoe. Figs. 768 773 ; also Fig. 531, p. 371. By S. A. Knapp. An annual plant of the grass family grown for its grain, which is used for human food. The seeds grow on short separate stems radiating from the main stalk, and at maturity stand at a height of two to five feet. The flowers of rice (Fig. 768) are perfect with six stamens, one borne in each spikelet, and usually with rudiments of others; the fruit or grain (Fig. 769) is oblong and ob- tuse and closely enclosed in the glume or hull, and it falls or shells easily, hull and all. The grain is used in a great variety of ways, and it prob- ably supplies more human be- ings with food than any other single plant. Rice is exten- sively cultivated around the world in the tropical and sub- tropical countries, mostly fol- lowing the shores. Its culture is very ancient. Distrihution. While a tropica! plant, rice thrives in subtropical coun- tries. It is known to have ex- isted in India in early historic periods and is doubtless indig- enous there. It requires a rich, moist soil, but is of wide adaptation. It thrives better under high temperature t
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