The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1893-06-30

On the showcases are series OF
large glass Jars filled with rice. 1t b.
not too much to say that rice is here
10 every form-from the rice bran
that is coming into popular use a.
food for cattle up to the delicately
scented powder that ladies use on thpr
faces. This object lesson in rice as r
universal staple properly begins with
rice bran, then rice polish, rice flour,
rice for brewers use, and then the
grades ofFice up to the best, largesl
J and finest, which--oHe of the most
nutritious foods that earth can yield
and the most abundant-is still the
cheapest offered.
Hts extremely interesting to gather
facts regarding thu. uses of rice. j.
telegraphed the other day that the fair.
directors are experimenting in the
stock pavilion with the various foods
for cattle, and that Captain Murray,
the superintendent of the rice exhibit,
had suceeeded.in getting them to make
a test of Louisiana rice bran, and that
they had ordered 1000 pounds. Rice
bran, it is claimed, will make a COW.
fatter and make her give more and
better butter than any other food.
The test is to be made on Jersey
cattle, and will be honestly conducted,
and the butter from rice bran fed cows
will be made and exhibited in the
dairy building. Captain Murray IS to
be congratulated uPon his enterprise
IN securing this test.
Rice bran sells in New Orleans at
IS to $40 a ton. Wheat bran, its
nearest rival IN food value, sells at $40
a ton, so it can be seen that If rice
bran is property introduced to cattle
men aud dairymel, boom on this
article will surely follow.
| Rough rice, now selling at Sl,5O
and 50 barrel, is constantly sold to
southern plantations, instead of oats,
as stock iced. If given 10 cattle
mixed with other grains, they eat ont
all the rice, rejecting the mix.
AN interesting display IN the glass
jars is made ofuce polish. The coarse
flour is sold abroad ,where it is largely
used to adnlterate pepper, etc. 1t is
quoted at Ola a ton, and is also used
for making nuttOns. Perhaps it is as
good a fabric as cellnloid Brewers
rice is an adnlterant largely used by
brewers IN beer making. Rice flanr
S the most delicate and the lighlesI
-four known. Nothing is NOR
dehcIoas in cakes and cream and pud
I diags, and as an invalId's food il IL
/ uBrqnaled. The northern grocery
9 men are examining this exhibit witt
{ peculiar interest, and if only the stat,
+, could arrange to have at the fairs
9 series Of cookery lessons in rice, givel
$ by some leading cooking teacher, suel
z, as Mrs Ewing, Mrs. Rover, or Julie
f CsrsOD, or our own ''Nelhe," rice a
/ a staple article of diet would find it,
( way into many homes where now it
never used.
IS Captain Murray has on hand a ca
n load Of bead rice which he is giviD
, away insmali punches and the demanl
for which quite equals the supply
IS Also arc given away quarter of
4 pound packages of rice, done up i
IS neat boxes, on which are direction
Il for cooking. Miss Fannie Cooke hs
5 arranged with the ladies who run th
e restaurant IN the Kentucky state bnilC
r ing TO serve rice every day, and I
If print 1t on their bills of taTe as HLoni
z lana rice" This is one of the bel
restaurants on the grounds, aud it wi
Al donbly pay the exhibit to hayeils rlC
~ Thus advertised.
al, In fact, half the people who Wis
Ii the far arc interested in the qaestin
Is Of cheap foods, and a better thin
as never happened to the rice men Of Il
Is south than that now, for The 6rst tim
ie tins cheapest of ell known foods
D. really being introduced 10 the Units
"a SiRles people, its merits made know
"A and aus suceuIeney demonstrated.
i, The bsautifnlriee pagoda and i
u Invaluable exhibit is due almost cole
HI 10 the enterprise of The New 0rlea
= Board Of Trade, who collected fun
IF from commission merchants, broker
4. riee dealers railroad men. bankers Al
i. Others, for the purpose of advertiser
h Louisiana rice as food for both mi
a aud beast, The slate funds pad f
81 lhe freight and for the floor oil q
ID pagoda The sslsries of the alien
NJ ants IN charge are also TO be paid fro
Il. The stale fund, but the best of u
i0i exhibit il due 10 splendid, geneFoi
NJ and sharpssighted private eaierpri
ID of those pHblic-spirlted men who knt
y, that saouslanA's grealesseIoR must O.
re- market all over this couHlry.
~ In The decoration Of the pagoda 4
g. rough rice-Or, 4 sbould say, be-
~ riee---lafgeiy came IRON The bay
ilafourcbe rlce farm Of Ar.Thlbedat
n The AoaveHi:E ice packages eame III
81. the Etnst Miils, the rough rice IN
"a. the New Orleans mills, aud great u
r. was gwen Colonel Waekistfc ana /
NV roe menbY MIC. q Bier, maDas
II. Of the lately hufned-out Hope II
M aidl, ID securing The ioe exhibit
tise Pefhapa Two lhirds 81 The noslhe
Ter. men who have settled in bouisis
ana dnnng the last tx years HAYS baca
lde rice farmsrs Acadia. Gsleaeisu :
Iese paris q Cameron Ragssh.are dsHn
ieFs nee, aud dung q stages 9t
and growth sheprep i indaaeFibaply %
ng liinl Iaa wssae lagelgs gRasle uH
i.s3 I&tf,s.t .tAssStvsa Ias44 4f tba 1Aaf