Bui. 50, Bureau cf Plant Industry, U, S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate VI. 



Fig. 1.— Indian Woman Parching Wild Rice. 





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Fig. 2.— Freshly Gathered Wild Rice Drying on a Scaffold. 



