Il6 TlMEHRI. 
Cylindrical wire sieve, the grains are relieved of the particles of flour, 
which still adhere to them, and which are brushed off by the wool and 
forced out through the meshes of the wire. The rice thus brushed 
clean and polished against the wire is packed into barrels constructed of 
pine staves to contain six cwt. net. The middling and small rice is 
passed through a fan which blows off from the flour into an apartment 
kept for that purpose." 
In this colony the Chinese have introduced a sort of 
"quern" with stones, where such can be found; and 
when not lhey make a circular casting in clay similar in 
appearance to a centrifrugal machine, letting in pieces of 
hardwood in such a way that when the centre revolves, 
rice falls between the outer casing and revolving centre, 
and the husk is partially broken. Then it is winnowed ; 
the clean rice separated, and grain with husk only 
cracked is transferred to mortar and pestle, which is an 
ordinary foo-foo mortar sunk in the ground acted upon 
by a shod pestle with ferule projecting a little below the 
wood. The pestle is fixed into a solid beam and this is 
again fixed on a pivot with the determination of weight 
towards the mortar. A man or woman at the far end of 
this lever by means of the foot depresses that end, when 
the other end rises in like proportion and is then allowed 
to drop with force upon the rice. Another winnowing, 
and the rice is ready for market. When brown rice is 
the aim, the paddy is scalded with boiling water. This 
swells the grain, and in drying the skin cracks and 
leaves the kernel much easier to clean than when white 
rice is the aim. Of course the oil stains the grain, hence 
brown colour. 
In a paper of this nature, treating of such an important 
agricultural product, it is proper that some allusion 
should be made to the area of land available for prose- 
