﻿UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



In Cooperation wilh (lie 

 Louisiana Agricultural Experimcn! Station 



DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1127 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



January 12, 1923 



SOME NEW VARIETIES OF RICE. 



By Charles E. Chambliss, Agronomist in Charge of Rice Investigations, Office 

 of Cereal Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, and J. Mitchell Jen- 

 kins, Superintendent, Rice Experiment Station, Crowley, La., and Assistant 

 Agronomist, Office of Cereal Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 1 



Conditions under which the rice va- 

 rieties described were grown 1 



Description of the rice plant 3 



Descriptions of the varieties 5 



Portuna 5 



Acadia 6 



Delitus 7 



Tokalon 8 



Descriptions of the varieties — Contd. 



Evangeline 9 



Vintnla 10 



Salvo 11 



Honduras 11 



Wataribune 12 



Blue Rose 13 



Shinriki 14 



Comparison of varieties 15 



INTRODUCTION. 



This bulletin includes a description of the rice plant and a 

 botanical and agronomic description of seven new varieties that have 

 been developed in the course of cooperative experiments at the Rice 

 Experiment Station, Crowley, La., and of four varieties now widely 

 grown in this country. The agronomic performance and adaptation 

 of each variety, including a full description of the conditions under 

 which the experiments were conducted, are discussed in detail. The 

 commercial value of the milled rice of the new varieties from a culi- 

 nary standpoint is indicated. 



CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE RICE VARIETIES DESCRIBED 



WERE GROWN. 



The seven new varieties of rice herein described were developed 

 from pure-line selections at the Rice Experiment Station, Crowley. 

 La., and grown under the same conditions as the four long-established 

 varieties which also are described in this bulletin. 



The station is operated by the Louisiana Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station in cooperation with the Office of Cereal Investiga- 

 tions of the Bureau of Plant Industry. It is located 1 mile west of 

 Crowley and is within a few miles of the eastern border of the 



10062°— 23 1 



