RICE 3S7 



Honduras a,nd the grain, being tougher, suffers a smaller 

 percentage of loss from broken grains in milling. The 

 kernels of Japan rice are short and thick. As the grain 



Fig. 61. — Showing typical heads of iSve varieties of 

 rice together with the unhulled and hulled grains 



' (o), and hulled kernels (6). 1, Blue Rose; 2, Hon- 

 duras; 3, Waterbuna (Japan); 4, Shinriki (Japan); 

 5, Red Rice. 



has a very thin hull it yields a small percentage of bran 

 and polish. , 



Blue Rose rice (Fig. 62) is the most important variety 

 now grown in southeast Texas and southwest Lousiana. It 

 was origmated by a planter by the name of Wright, of 

 Crowley, Louisiana, and has come into use only within the 

 last five or six years. It is valued especially as a high- 

 yielding variety and possesses excellent milling quahties, 

 milling a uniformly high percentage of finished rice. It 



