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as that cultivated in India, but European energy 

 has subjected it to such a careful cultivation in the 

 rich soil of young America, that the result is the 

 production of a grain which excels in its nutri- 

 tive and other qualities the best Patna rice, as 

 much as the latter may be said to excel the wild 

 variety. The grain of Carolina rice is larger, whiter, 

 better flavored, and more nutritious on account of 

 the greater percentage of gluten present. The Jury 

 of the Industrial Exhibition in London, in 1851, 

 pronounced it as "magnificent in size, colour, and 

 clearness," and awarded it a prize-medal. 



Various attempts have been made by the differ- 

 ent Governments to introduce this variety into 

 India. Seed was ordered out from America ; but, 

 instead of a suitable centre for its cultivation and 

 gradual acclimatization being selected, it was dis- 

 tributed all over the country, and the experiments 

 were entrusted to officials whose ignorance of agri- 

 culture in general, could only be equalled by their 

 ignorance of rice-culture in particular. 



The results of such unsystematic proceedings were 

 naturally not very encouraging ; the failures were 

 attributed to floods, excessive rains or drought, 

 birds, insects everything, in short, seemed to have 

 conspired against the successful introduction of this 

 new variety into India ; but, I am afraid, the non- 

 success was due more to the carelessness and indiffer- 

 ence with which the experiments were conducted. 



