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Culture of Rice. 
fingers, and place three or four grains in it. The upland rice re- 
quires but little water, and is never irrigated. 
The cultivator in the Philippine Islands is always enabled to 
secure plenty of manure; for vegetation is so luxuriant, that by 
pulling the weeds and laying them with earth, a good stock is 
quickly obtained, with which to cover his fields. Thus, although 
the growth is so rank as to cause him labor, yet in this hot cli- 
mate its decay is equally rapid, which tends to make his labors 
more successful. 
Fig. 39 — Stacking Rice, Luzon. 
The rice stacks form a picturesque object on the field ; they are 
generally placed around or near a growth of bamboo, whose tall, 
graceful and feathery outline is of itself a beautiful object, but 
connected as it is often seen with the returns of the harvest, it 
furnishes an additional source of gratification. 
The different kinds of rice, and especially the upland, would 
no doubt be an acquisition to our country. At the time we were 
at Manilla, it was not thought feasible to pack it, for it had just 
