UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1155 
Washington, D. C. V June, 1923 
RICE EXPERIMENTS AT THE BIGGS RICE FIELD STATION 
IN CALIFORNIA 
B| 
JENO W. JONES 
Agronomist, Office ot Cereal Investigations, bureau of Plaul Industry 
CONTENTS 
Page 
History of Rice Growing io California • 1 
Tbj Biggs Rke Field Station 1 
E-ivironmenlal Conditions 3 
Cultural Experiments 9 
, Irrigation Experiments ......... 16 
Fej.Jizer Experiments 20 
Varietal Experiments . 29 
Control dt Wee.'s 47 
Other Crops for Rj;e L_.iJ So 
Snmmary S7 
WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTlhG OFFICE 
1923 
