The figures below indicate the acreage and production of Blue- 
bonnet rice in the United States for 1950 and 1951: 
1950 1go! 
ACrea pei. 2m 2 ee et ae eee 405,811 600,390 
Production;*cwtitste ee ee 8,851,102 13,341,665 
Percentof) Cropiiisrcseseect sce teers 23.68 29:6; 
Bluebonnet 50 is a strain of Bluebonnet selected by H. M. Beachell 
at the Rice Experiment Station, Beaumont, Texas. 
The Certified Seed Rice being offered for sale by the Delta & Pine 
Land Company is the result of one-variety production and processing 
