Photo and copyright by Underwood & Underwood 

 A MOUNTAIN 01^ RICE: RANGOON,, BURMA 



Rangoon boasts of the largest rice-handling plants in the world and the photograph 

 shows one of them. Thousands of tons of the tiny grains are piled up in huge hills, much 

 as coal is stored in America. In the principal shipping depots the rice is handled much the 

 same way as wheat is treated in the lake region of the United States. Foreign capital has 

 constructed rice elevators and suction pumps by which the cereal is loaded into the vessel's 

 holds. The agile Burmese handle the rice in other plants, however, and, using their small 

 receptacles, work almost as fast as the machinery. The picture shows a group of freight 

 .handlers and the hill of rice they are about to carry away in bushel baskets. 



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