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The rice seeds are husked and polished in small Chinese 

 mills; these mills also are used for kaoliang and small millet. 



The rice straw is used by the Chinese as fodder and for 

 making cords. 



Two varieties of rice are found on the Manchurian 

 market : white and red. They both have their grains badly 

 husked and polished and are often broken. The grains are 

 brittle and farinaceous. 



In the Northern districts mountain rice is of a very 

 inferior quality, but in the Yin-ma-ho, Kirin, Schan-Chung 

 districts the rice is white in colour and pleasant to the palate. 



All mountain rice produced in Kirin and Helungkiang 

 provinces of Manchuria is consumed by the local Chinese 

 population and is not exported. 



Plate II. The Mountain Rice Plant. 



