The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-01-09

rice. Also the cost of producing rice
in Japan is 1882 per acre, while the
small rice grower who produces 40
to go acres in this country, can do SO
at a cose of $25 per acre, and the
large rice grower can produce at as
low a cose as $12 an acre.
The number of acres of rice that
can be produced, under Oriental meth
DDS, by one man, is as follows:
In Japan, half-acre; in China, from
one-half to two and one-half acres,
and in the Philippine Islands, two and
one-haf acres.
Also, the advantage of the rice
farmers of this country over other
countries are many besides the large
increase in acreage that they can cul-
tivate, not the smallest being the tax.
In Japan, there is a government tax
of So per acre and $40 per acre ex-
pense for fertilizer. In India, there
is also a tax of $3.50 an acre on all
rices.
The American rice grower uses the
improved methods and implements of
the Northern wheat fields-the gang
pillow, the self binder and the steam
thresher is used in the planting, har-
vesting and threshing of his grain,
while the only means of cultivation
is an endless supply of water pumped
from deep wells, with which the grow
ing crop is irrigated.
Arkansas Leads All.
The average yield of rice grown in
Arkansas, as compared with the older
rice growing states in this country,
shows that Arkansas leads all of the
other states in average yield.
In South Carolina and Georgia, the
average yield is shown as from % to
30 bushels per acre; in Louisiana and
Texas from As to so bushels per acre,
while the average of Arkansas rice is
60 bushels per acre. The quality is
pronounced by New Orleans experts
as being of the best, and is given the
highest market quotations.
The by-products of the rice industry
is no small feature of the value of the
crop. When cut and cured in dry
weather, rice straw is almost equal
to Southern hay. The straw from the
Japan rice is especially good forage,
and stock that is turned loose in the
stack yard with no other forage for
their winter living comes out in fair
flesh.
Rice hulls make a fair fertilizer and
is splendid as a mulch for gardens
and orchards.
Rice polish is a valuable feed, and
is worth an average of probably $40
per ton, while the rice bran is pro-
nounced a much richer feed than
wheat bran, and commands from $40
to SIS per ton.
Still another value of the by-pro-
duct of the rice crop is the value of
rice straw for the manufacture of
paper. 1t has been tested in the Eas-
tern paper mills and the pulp from
the rice straw makes the finest quail
ity of straw paper.
While it is not possible at this date
to get a report on the average per
acre for this wears crop, it is thought
that the year will show a better aver
age than heretofore.
Alfred Cummins, living Is miles
south of Stuttgart, had in 800 acres,
from which he has marketed $1,000
bushels and received for his crop
$17,675, while T. M. Hillman, living in
the same vicinity, from his field of
400 acres has harvested $4,000 bushels
and has marketed 10000 bushels, for
which he received $13,676, and has
remaining in his warehouse 14,800 bu-
shells yet to be marketed.
The Arkansas rice crop of 1915, it
is thought, will reach 100. 900 acres.