RICE 



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Flo. 82. A modern rice thresher in the Philippines 



time. These machines are very expensive, and cannot 

 be used on small fields, such as are found here. But it 

 is possible in many places here to use threshing ma- 

 chines after the rice is cut. One such machine can 

 thresh all the rice in a large community. Every laborer 

 in the Texas rice fields is paid three pesos a day, or 

 more. And yet, by the use of machinery, rice is pro- 

 duced there more cheaply than is possible in the Philip- 

 pines. 



