MARKETING OF RICE 



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\e60 1860 1670 f880 1890 1900 



of southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas. Marked 

 changes have taken place in the production of rice in the 

 South Atlantic States, due to changes in economic conditions, 

 and to some extent to increased variations in the water supply, 

 caused by the removal of forests from the headwaters of the 

 streams. In 1899 sixty- 

 one per cent of the crop 

 of the United States was 

 raised in Louisiana, seven- 

 teen per cent in South 

 Carolina and twelve per 

 cent in Hawaii. The only 

 other States raising more 



than one per cent of the chart showing production of rice in million pounds 

 total production were ^y decades m south central and South Atlantic 



Georgia, North Carolina 



and Texas. While Hawaii produces t^velve per cent of the 



rice in the United States, this is not sufficient to supply the 



consumption of the islands. The Philippines also raise a 



considerable quantity of rice, but not sufficient for domestic 



consumption. 



530. Yield per Acre. — The average yield of rough rice per 

 acre in the three census years, 1879, 1889, 1899, has been 746 

 pounds. In Hawaii the yield per acre in 1899 was reported as 

 3,663 pounds. In the Southern States a yield of ten to twelve 

 barrels of 162 pounds each on irrigated land is considered 

 satisfactory, while twenty barrels, and even thirty barrels, in 

 exceptional cases, have been reported. The average price of 

 rough rice in 1899 was three cents, and the value per acre was 

 $22.46. 



531. Marketing. — The weight of a bushel of paddy or rough 

 rice IS forty-five pounds. Paddy is, however, usually put up in 

 barrels or sacks weighing 162 pounds, and commercial quota- 

 tions are usually by the barrel, rather than by the bushel 



