52 THE TEXAS RICE BOOK. 



ooo gallons an hour when united, while one of my pumps in 

 Southwest Louisiana gives 1,000,000 gallons in the same. Who 

 can imagine the beauty and value of such a country, every acre 

 a garden and every garden capable of almost perpetual cultiva- 

 tion ?" 



Mr. Carey told many instances of remarkable success. 



"I know," he said, "of boys who have been working for from 

 $5 to $20 per month who last year cleared from $500 to $2,000 

 each, and to-day are wearing store bought clothes. I know of 

 single farmers who last year bought and paid for farm, improve- 

 ments and machinery, and had enough money left to last until 

 next harvest. Albert Anderson came from Maryville, N. D., one 

 year ago, bought 195 acres in corporate limits of Jennings for 

 $2,500, put in one eight-inch well and ninety acres in rice. The 

 crop paid for the whole land, all improvements and expense of 

 crop. He has bought and put into rice three hundred acres and 

 three more wells, and gone back to North Dakota after more peo- 

 ple. The Mayville canal plant sold last year from 2,000 acres 

 $75,000 worth of rice and have 6,000 acres for 1900, including 

 3,700 for the company." Farm and Ranch. 



RICE GROWING. 



The recent combinations by which a capital of $15,000,000 

 was added to the vast sum already interested in rice and the 

 recent wonderful increase in Texas acreage devoted to the culti- 

 vation of the pearly grain has drawn general attention to the 

 crop throughout the State. About thirty-five years ago the 

 quantity of rice raised in Louisiana began to be worthy of at- 

 tention and a considerable yearly increase was made until in 

 1896 the State produced 127,600,000 pounds of clean rice, 

 which is a little more than was raised last year. Rice has been 

 and is grown also in Georgia, North and South Carolina, as 

 well as Texas and Louisiana. Any land in the latter State that 

 can be irrigated will grow the crop. 



The manner of cultivation changes with conditions and 

 soil. The seed is usually sown broadcast the latter part of 

 March or early in April. In wet culture the fields are flooded 

 and plowed in water, the rice is sown and harrowed in wet, aft- 

 er which the water is withdrawn and germination ensues. In 

 alluvial sections drainage ditches run from the levees through 

 the fields 100 to 200 feet apart, the ground is plowed in fall and 

 winter, harrowed, and the seed sown either with a drill or 

 broadcast. After the plants are up the ground is gradually 

 moistened and the water kept from covering the top of the 

 plants until a good size is reached, then the field is flooded and 

 kept so until the rice is ready for harvest. Weeds are gotten 

 rid of either by hand pulling or with a scythe. Before harvest 



