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301. Varieties. The two general types of rice are the 

 lowland and the upland. The former is grown on rather low, 

 level land which can be flooded from wells or streams, while 

 the latter is produced without irrigation. The lowland is 

 the type grown almost entirely in this country. The variety 

 most commonl}^ grown in South Carolina is the Carolina 



Figure 



8. — The two common types of rice grown in America: Hon- 

 duraa on the left, a Japanese variety on the right 



Gold, with golden-yellow hulls. In Louisiana and Texas, 

 the types usually grown are the Honduras and the Japan. 

 Both are yellowish brown in color; the grains of Honduras 

 rice are larger and longer, but relatively thinner, than those 

 of the Japan type. Though Japan rice is of comparatively 

 recent introduction, large quantities of it are now grown. 



302. Importance of the Crop. Rice is one of the world's 

 greatest food crops, being a staple article of diet for several 

 hundred millions of people in India, China, and Japan. The 

 total annual production of cleaned rice is something like 

 175,000,000,000 pounds, indicating an annual production of 

 rough rice, or paddy, of about 280,000,000,000 pounds, as 



