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Wild rice usually does not do well where plants, when near together, support each 



there is much current or change in the other, the root anchorage is protected, 



level of the water, although it grows and a good stand is more likely to result 



abundantly on tide flats. It must be re- than if the seed is more widely scat- 



membered that wild rice is not adapted tered. 

 to stagnant water. When to plant.— -Fall has usually been 



It may also be added that the salt- considered the most desirable time for 



water limits of wild rice may be deter- sowing, but it has been proved that seed 



mined approximately by the simple test sown i n spr ing will bring a full crop, and 



of taste. When water is appreciably f or several reasons spring sowing is usu- 



salty to the taste it is too salty for the a n y advisable. Where seed has been 



successful growth of this plant.* sown m ^\ f t h e bottom may freeze and 



From 4 inches to 6 feet of water are t h e seed be carried off by the ice in 



about the limits of its usual occurrence, spr i n g. Ducks and other waterfowl, as 



and it does best m from 1 to 3 feet. In well as some fi s h es , eat the seed, and the 



shallow water it may be killed by heat less it j s exposed to their depredations 



in summer, so it is best, in southern lo- the more abundant will be the crop. Seed 



cahties especially, to sow the seed in not is likely also to be buried by depositions 



less than 2 feet of water. £ mU( ^ or swe pt away by currents, es- 



How to plant.— The least possible time pec i a n y m f res hets. These dangers may 



must intervene between removal from be avoided by sowing the seed in spring 



cold storage and sowing. Broadcast sow- i a te enough to avoid the worst spring 



ing answers every purpose, and the seed fres hets but in time to get the benefit of 



should be thickly sown, as the growing the first good grow i ng weather ; that is, 



"^Tofield, C. S., Bui. 72, Bureau of Plant In- when the temperature of the water ap- 



dustry, Part II, p. 8, 1905. proaches 60 degrees Fahrenheit. 



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