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Unpolished rice: 

 Imported Japanese rice . . 

 Hawn. -grown Jap. rice. . 

 Hawn.-grown Gold Seed.. 



Polished rice: 

 Imported Japanese rice . . 

 Hawn.-grown Jap. rice. . 

 Hawn.-grown Gold Seed.. 



The table shows that there is no chemical difiference between 

 the Japan variety or the Gold Seed, nor between the Japan va- 

 riety when grown in Japan or in Hawaii. Yet the fact remains 

 that there is a great difference in quality between these rices. To 

 the American people who eat rice with milk and sugar, with 

 gravies, with curry, in custards or in other ways, all kinds of rice 

 taste pretty much alike, and because it is rice we think that 

 if we eat it once in a week or a month, that is all we want of it. 

 The taste of the Chinese for rice is one that is fixed by custom, 

 and the same is true for the Japanese, with the difference that the 

 latter people are more discriminating in their taste and will, if 

 they are able, buy only rice that pleases them, while the Chinese 

 will be contented with whatever rice happens to be the cheapest. 

 The Chinese have been accustomed for generations to the rice 

 which has a long, narrow kernel and which may be described as 

 a dry rice, while the Japanese have been accustomed to the short, 

 thick berry of what has been terme'd a glutenous rice but in which 

 analyses, as shown, fail to find any extra amount of glutenous 

 material, 



A similar peculiarity of taste is shown by the fact that most 

 Southern people prefer a soft, sugary sweet potato, while the 

 Northern people who are accustomed to dry, mealy Irish potatoes 

 show a preference for sweet potatoes of like description. The 

 Chinese and Japanese, moreover, consume large amounts of rice 

 and they eat it for the most part alone, without any of the fixings 

 which the Americans commonly use. 



When the Japanese of Hawaii found that the rice grown here 

 did not come up to the quality of that to which they were accus- 

 tomed, what more natural than that they should import rice 

 from Japan to satisfy their wants? This they have done and 

 are now doing to the extent of some 30,000,000 lbs. per year, 

 and for which they pay a premium of one to two cents over the 

 price for which they could obtain Hawaiian rice. 



The Experiment Station has introduced various varieties of 

 Ja])an rice in an attem])t to obtain one that would lie of the 

 quality demanded by the jai)anesc jiopulation of Hawaii. Three 

 have been tested and have been found to be to a certain degree 

 of these varieties as well as one other of a previous introduction 



