H2 RICE 



land for five or six days to sprout the seed. The water 

 is then turned off and the plants allowed to grow until 

 they have two leaves. Then the land is again flooded, 

 covering the little plants about six inches. This irri- 

 gation lasts about twenty days or a month, when the 



A FIELD OF RICE 



water is turned off, and the rice is allowed to grow for 

 a month or so, when the fields are again flooded and the 

 plants left standing in the water from about June to 

 August, or until the crop is full grown. The water is 

 drained off, so that the crop will ripen and the ground 

 dry out for harvesting. 



