The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-29

land rice, though some dealers have 1t
for sale as Honduras upland rice. The
white rice also has many names. though
simple white rice" is the most common.
The original name now seems to have
been entirely lost, but the rice still stays
and continues to carry its own as the
best upland rice cultivated, for several
reasons. \ southern scotsman now has II
catalogued as Japan rice, and says OF II;
This has proven TO be much the finest
variety of rice for upland culture, and one
well adapted to the latitude of all the
cotton states. 1t is prolific, natures in
about one hundred days from sowing, and
bears drought better than any other rice.
Sown in March or April. it may be har-
vested about the last Of July. Yields dou-
BILE what oats or wheat would yield on
same soil. A second growth springs up
at once after the harvest and makes
large crop of excellent forage equal to
sheaf oats. Culture very simple. Sown in
drills, i've pecks will be ample to seed an
acre.
Any good, arabic land will do for up
land rice if inclined to be damp-too much
so for most other crops-rice will not OBJ
ject to that condition though high and
dry lands bring the crop very well.
The land should be deeply and thorough
ly prepared. and made moderately rich, If
not rich naturally. Drill the seed in rows,
say about three feet apart and cover to
the depth of one inch. A roller passed
over the rows to firm the land hastens
termination of the seed.
The seedsmen recommend five pecks of
seed rice CROUCH riceD to the acre. but
we have always found one bushel entirely
enough, and we could do very well on
half buShel, for rice is a wonderful
growth to stool" and therefore the
plants must be thinned down to from six
to eight inches apart when established.
We would sow about one bushel to make
sure Of stand, though should we SOW
less we could easily make a stand at the
thinning OUT by transplanting in the
missing places, for rice transpiants as
readily as onions.
The upland rice crop must be carefully
cultivated until up sufficiently to cover the
ground and take care of itself. Weeds and
grass must be kept down, and. above all,
not allowed to choke the young and spind-
ling plants in the row. In this row-work
lies the main draw back to upland rice cul~
ture. The young plants are extremely del
icate and would soon succumb to a thick
growth of crab grass They grow rapidly
however, and hence in few weeks are
| robust, and are amply able to fight their
own way.
Harvesting is usually performed with the
sickle or reap-hook-the after-handling is
| precisely the same as that of wheat or
| oats. The straw is not hollow like that
| of the other grains named, and not so
glazed on the exterior. After the grain has
| been threshed from it, the straw makes an
| excellent forage for stock, and is much rel
| ished by them.
We prefer the white rice to the red for
| two particular reasons. 1t makes earlier
| and, therefore, gives a better second crop
for forage. and it grows lower and more
| stocky, and hence stands up better, though
| the heads are as large as those of the 9th
| er variety, and the yield equally as good
| We have raisedff both kinds, finding the
| yield of each about the same running
| from fifty to sixty-five bushels to the acre
on land that would bring from fifteen tC
| twenty bushels of corn. We would always
| plant the red upland rice if we could not
| get the white, and in case we could not
| get either of these, would plant the com
mon swamp rice, as it fairly well adapts
| itself to upland culture, especially if the
| land inclines to damp