The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-01
RIfE AND ITS MANY USES.
Same Of The Ways Of Improving the
Rice Growing Industry.

IOE aGARA@~1
IT, rice trade, which is the oldest of
o---nrsb,s diversified commerce and in
So. is a very important factor, and
Gus --r-s,erity of this trade is closely
tn5 ~ the prosperity of Savannah.
nm NJ long staple or sea island cotton,
o--l;ra and Georgia rice enjoys the I'M
Silnnrsd Qualification of being the finest
u.75 host product of its kind on the face of
the earth. -,u.;u ~ h.a
-. rsverses. caused by floods, storms,
- LEGISLATION and overproduction of an
s-t,rior article in Louisiana, so that it is
~. nv, anv means as prosperous and profit
Ill. as IT used to be; it will therefore be
a., M interest to discuss any. possible
jnnroyemeut that could be made IN the
rice trade. 80
IiD0llnr1vement could be expected,
a n lowering the cost of produc-
10 Ttilizine by-products, or increasing
w. w., assumption and demand, for rice or
products tnereIron'
REACHED NEAR TO PERFECTION.
.pp+ little can be expected in increasing
.be Weld of rice per acre, or decreasing
w. .cosr of production, as the rice plant
az an the Atlantic coast are exception
ouv well educated, practical and thor
oTgh business men, who are backed by
irIerired results Of an experience of more
tban hundred years.
me maximum production of rice to the
scre at a minimum cost has well-nigh
Isan reached. Long continued prosperity
nj the rice trade has, however, some
TO In ~,
rastig9te the real value of by-prOductS,
sucb AS straw. rice flour or bran, and rice
chat
The utilization of rice straw could. of
course be best obtained by being locally
emrloved in paper mills or mattress fac
tories, and it is probable that this will be
done at some future day, but as we have
neither now. the straw can be still made
to Weld some returns by shipping the
same.
PHOFIT IN THE STRAW.
Rice straw can be proftably shipped to
baltimore for Sc and to New York and
Philadelphia for s. or 80 per ton delivered.
This wear the demand for every kind of
raw material has been so light and the
prices so depressed that it would have
been impracticable to proftably ship rice
straw, but any other year there is con-
siderable margin in such shipments, and
there is ample room for a dozen enter
prisng men to engage thousands of tons
in the early fall for future shipments and
delivery.
As paper pulp material rice straw is I'M
surpassed by any other kind of straw,
from the fact that all other cereals are
allowed TO fully ripen before they are
harvested. while rice is always cut Just as
the grain is ripening, while the stalk is
still in full sap and perfectly green. This
is always done to keep the rice from shat
tering and going to waste.
This fact alone renders rice straw very
valuable as the fiber from green straw,
properly cured, is very much tougher and
stronger than that from overripe straw,
besides green cured straw is much brighter
and easier bIeached. Hence much more
valuable.
THE CHINESE LEAD IN IT.
The above facts have been known and
appreciated by the Chinese and Japanese
for many hundreds, probably thousands
Of years, and there rice straw is the most
extensively used paper material. 1t is
wonderful what fine tissue paper is pro-
vded by these people from rice straw
and 1t would certainly be worthy of an
enort by the rice-planters as well as by
tne paper manufacturers, to increase the
consumption Of rice straw in paper max
Ing. The production of rice straw in Sa-
Yannahs territory will exceed 200, 900
TONS annually, and even if only one or two
dollars per ton could be realized to the
planter the full utilization of this pro-
duct would amount to vast sum- it
would give employment to many and
would Ienetit transportation companies
Burning the rice straw on the fields for
leruLzng purposes, is a very doubtful
economy as only about per cent of the
straw are ashes, and the percentage of
potash IS so small, that almost any price
ter than burning.
MONEY IN RICE CHAFF.
Even rice chaff-this bug-bear of all
rye mills, which N's been considered so
utterly incapabi yielding any financial
a a' mat the mills pack the same in
SACKS ana deliver the same free of charge
70 the vessel, the consignee only paying
1or Vne freight, could be turned into
cerned - O-
me Manufacturers Record published
nttSeutiy the result of trial shipment of
I've cna1 TO Hamburg, Germany, which
brought $40 per ton.
ods AMMAN has exceptionally good facili-
s.VS lor transatlantic shipments, as every
o o oI phosphate rock shipped has got
bniiP'e room left to stow away large
Sr r-A ol !nls light material. At IS per ton
c,r guy II would pay the vessel well to
ELY radaH Cne same, while the shipper would
EGgi,e handsome return.
~ packing glass, porcelain and other
c [r-5tie merchandise, as well as for non
n na uuuGVor OF heat, rice chaff is unsur-
s,, cHe r Is a considerable demand for just
n mIit material throughout Europe In
a bneb,eiIod lSdhnah produces annually $50, 00(
bushels OF rice chat.
THE FLOUR OF RICE.
bo neice bran, commonly called rice f1om
vioIS C0eusututes about 10 per cent. of the
sgo '' vi rice and assuming that the aver.
hnsbdl}T ceIllts at Savannah are 500, 0OC
rice I VI rough rice, the production OF
snnpa iran would be about $4,000 bushels
benc ua!:ly' A bushel weighs 40 pounds
No. No. III weight it amounts to 1000 OO(
CENT winch sells at wholesale for Is
cert9 per oushel and retails at 25 and &c
riaa P Ior hog and cattle feeding. This
ilad run consists of broken and pulver.
and i 10 rice bran proper, and pulverized
the NJ, VI used chaff Fully 45 per cent. oil
arco,, ne oran consists of pure starch; on
of ri"I OIL TINS starch, the intrinsic value
tbraa Oran should be at least two OF
pNo INES as much as what it is now.
star.b obtaining only AZ per cent. oil
of st 'l, ana barley containing AS per cent
and ~, which are used for distillina
ceBtags lag' IN both of which the per
copsidS,.-Ql! starch only, is the valuable
---.lou' being pound for pound