UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
In Cooperation with the 
Louisiana Agricultural Experiment 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 Indus-try, and J. Mitchell Jen- 
kins, Superintendent, Rice Experiment Station, Croioley, 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 
Fortuna 5 
Acadia 6 
Delitus 7 
Tokalon 8 
Page. 
Descriptions of the varieties — Contd. 
Evangeline 9 
Vintula 10 
Salvo 11 
Honduras 1] 
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 
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