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There are. varieties that grow on the upland, the 

 culture of which is similar to that of wheat or 

 barley; notwithstanding the fact that rice is 

 usually thought of and grown as a marsh plant. 

 These have recently been introduced into the 

 cotton regions of the south, and I am told that 

 in some regions they are supplanting the cotton 

 crop. Also rice in certain sections of northern 

 California is lately being grown by the million 

 bushels annually. 



Some botanists have classified no fewer than 

 six species of rice, and there are many hundreds 

 of varieties, variation seeming to be no more 

 unusual than with wheat, oats, or barley. It is 

 only the relative unfamiliarity with rice of the 

 western world that has led to the supposition 

 that one kind of rice is like another. At the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 over two 

 hundred varieties were on exhibition from the 

 Philippines alone. 



Our estimate of the grain is somewhat 

 analogous to our estimate of the Oriental 

 peoples. 



The casual western observer thinks that all 

 Japanese and all Chinamen look a good deal 

 alike; but to the practiced eye there is nearly as 

 great diversity among them as among European 

 races. 



