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the same methods in this Colony — first *' in the stretches of 

 alluvium common beside rivers and streams, and usually over- 

 flowed in the wet season — yield by this method varying from 

 1600-8600 kilos per acre; the cultivation ■ in these places is 

 carried on in the ordinary Indian and Burmese manner except 

 that it is of a much rougher and simpler land ; second, in the 

 higher valleys of the Limba country where the natives occasionally 

 cut down large stretches of forest which are burnt on the spot 

 before the rainy season begins; the rice is sown on the dry 

 ash-covered grounds and springs up during the rains." 



Of the innumeiable varieties cultivated in India Avhere rice is 

 a staple crop in all areas of heavy and assured rainfall and good 

 crops are also obtained in other areas assisted by irrigation, 

 those of Bengal are referred to three classes : — the '' Aman," 

 or winter crop, sown on lowlands in May or June and reaped in 

 December or January, and by far the most important crop ; the 

 ** Aus " or *' Bhadoi/' the autumn or early rice crop, sown in 

 April or May on comparatively high land and reaped in August 

 or September, and " Boro," or summer rice, sown in swamps 

 in January or February and reaped in April or May (Watt Comm, 

 Prod. India, p. 828). The yield in different tracts, from different 

 soils and from different methods of cultivation varies very 

 greatly. In good soil an average transplanted crop 5delds about 

 2400 lb. of paddy per acre in a favourable season; broadcast 

 and drilled rice yield much less (he. p, 827). The varieties 

 grown in India differ in size, shape, weight, colour, consistence 

 and properties and the names attributed to them is on account 

 of their supposed qualities (Hooper, Agric. Ledger, No. 6, 

 1908-09, p. 63) and after an examination of 159 named samples 

 of grain it has been found that '' the richness of the grain appears 

 to be due not so much to the races of the plant or the appearance 

 of the grain as to the cultivation ; the grains of finest composi- 

 tion are found in plants grown in rich virgin soil or in lands 

 Uberally manured '' (I.e. p. 91). 



jief, — " Oryza sativa,'' in Field & Garden Crops, N.W. 

 Prov. & Oudh, Duthie & Fuller, pp. 15-20 (Thomason Civil 



Engineering College Press, Roorkee, 1882). " Oryza saliva/' 



in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, v. part 2, 1891, pp. 502-654, 



" Black Burmese Rice,'' in Kew Bull. 1892, pp. 232-234. 



The Present Status of Rice Culture in the United States, Knapp, 

 U.S. Dept. Agric, Div. of Botany Bull. No, 22, 1899, pp. 1-56. 



Rice Culture in the United States, Knajjp, U.S. Dept. Agric. 



Farmers' BuU, No. 110, 1900, pp. 1-28. " Rice (Mendi, Beh), 



in The Sherbro and Its Hinterland, Alldridge pp. 92-95 (Mac- 

 millan & Co. Ltd. London, 1901);"— " Note sur la Culture 

 du Riz dans le Haut-Oubangi,*' Michot, in L' Agric. prat, pays 



chauds, i. 1901-02, pp. 123-128. *' Essai de Decortication 



du Riz de la Guinee Frangaise," Ringelmann, I.e. pp. 286-292, 



with particulars of machinery. " Report on the System of 



Rice Cultivation practised in Pahang," Wise, in Agric. Bull, 



