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UPLAND OR MOUNTAIN RICE. 



This rice, as its name implies,, is cultivated where the land is too rolling 

 to practice flooding. Large amounts of it are raised in these Islands, and 

 in certain districts where the valleys are narrow and level lands are scarce 

 mountain rice constitutes the principal article of food of the natives. 



In regard to its cultivation, very little need be said more than has 

 already been stated in regard to lowland rice. The cultivation and har- 

 vesting of the crop are practically the same as for flooded rice, excepting 

 that no provision need be made for leveeing. The only difference between 

 the cultivation of the upland and the lowland rice lies in the fact that the 

 former has to be frequently hoed and weeded, because there is not water 

 on the land to smother the grass. 



CONCLUSION. 



In conclusion we wish to reiterate that there is no reason why scientific 

 methods of culture and modern agricultural implements should not make 

 the Philippines one of the leading rice countries of the world. It was not 

 many years ago when the rice industry in Louisiana was on the same 

 footing with the rice industry of the Orient, and yet such a revolution 

 has been effected in the cultivation of rice in that State within the last 

 fifteen years as has not been accomplished in Chinese rice culture in six 

 thousand years. 



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