RICE 207 



whole rice or heads; scant heads or straits; broken 

 rice or screenings; and brewer's rice. This last is 

 used in manufacturing beer. 



The most serious obstacle to rice growing are 

 weeds. Wild rice and red rice are both weeds in 

 the regular rice field. If these get into the cul- 

 tivated varieties they reduce the value of the crop. 

 To avoid this trouble, it is necessary that only 

 clean seed, positively free from red rice, be used. 

 The rice grain after leaving the mill is graded, the 

 better grains being used for human consumption. 

 A by-product from the preparation of rice is known 

 as rice meal and has considerable value as a stock 

 feed. The rice hulls have little feeding value. In 

 the past, they have been very greatly used as an 

 adulterant in many kinds of cattle feeds. Adding 

 rice hulls to these feeds now is a fraud and in most 

 states is not permitted. Rice straw is used sim- 

 ilarly with wheat straw. 



RUTABAGAS. — As a winter food for live stock 

 rutabagas have a wide range of adaptation. Like 

 rape, this plant is found at its best where the 

 weather is moist and cool. The crop should al- 

 ways be made a cleaning crop, save when the seed 

 is sown broadcast. It may, therefore, with much 

 propriety come after a succession of grain crops 

 when the land has become weedy through thus 

 growing these crops upon it, as it assuredly will be- 

 come in time. Turnips will grow nicely in overturned 

 sod lands when the sod is not too fresh and dense, 

 but such lands are usually wanted for cereals be- 

 cause of their clean condition. A grain crop should 

 follow the rutabaga crop, and because of the clean 

 condition of the land, it would be well to sow grass 

 seeds or clover seeds, or both, with the grain. 



