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not need to be flooded, but is cultivated much as 

 oats or wheat. 



Growing Rice. The ground is prepared for rice 

 and the seed is planted, harvested, and threshed 

 very much the same as wheat. Where the rice crop 



Courtesy of the Alabama Tobacco 

 Fig. 86. A heavy crop cf tobacco and drying ham. 



is flooded with water, the ground is allowed to dry 

 out at harvest time. The upland rice is thought by 

 some planters to be better than the lowland variety, 

 but the yield is not so great. 



Rice Products and Enemies. From the thresher, 

 the rice is sent to the mill in barrels. A little more 

 than half of it comes out clean rice, a small part is 

 polish, and about a third is bran and waste. The 



