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 RICE HA R VES TING MA CHINER Y. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 21, 1906. 

 Mr. L. G. Blackman, 



Editor The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, 

 Honolulu. 

 Dear Mr. Blackman : As per your request, I enclose here- 

 with negatives of two rice harvesting scenes — Chinese harvest- 

 ing rice by hand, and a self-binding harvester in operation in 

 our trials, October 18, 1906. 



At this second trial of the rice harvester by the Hawaii 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, with conditions in the field 

 not so favorable as the}- often are, it having rained the night 

 previous to the trial, and also during part of the time while 

 the machine was in operation, very satisfactory results were 

 achieved. 



The particular machine used in our trials is what is termed 

 a McCormick Self-binding Right-hand Rice Harvester, with 

 five-foot cutter-bar, a machine especially designed to meet 

 the requirements of rice growers in Louisiana and Texas. It 

 is largely due to this labor and time-saving implement that the 

 rice industry of the Gulf States has been so greatly extended 

 and made profitable. 



