564: QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Dec., 1901. 
Nagpur Early and Late Central Provinces, Nagpur, India— - 
: ti Few ty Per favour of Director-General, 
&: Teale ell Wags °° Department of Agriculture, 
73 ” 
9 » Late P Aman Central Provinces, India. 
Java Rice— 
10. Paddy White Java, Upland No. 1 
11. * = x No. 2 
12. " a 5 No. 3 
18a. 4 _ Oryza glutinosa 
145. Fh = - Sativa (var. Black Bearded) 
15e. 3 D » White Bearded Paddy 
16d. bp , Praecox, Unbearded 
17e. Sativa ye 
(The last five varieties obtained per favour of H.M. British Consul, Batavia.) 
Italian— 
18. Paddy Italian Upland 
Japan— 
19. Paddy Kobé, Japan No. 1 
Ai, ay ¥ No. 2 
21.-  ,, Sugamomi—1 Aman variety 
22. ” ” ” 
23. ” ” 10 ” 
24. ” ” 5 ” 
25. ” ” 3 ” 
(The last five varieties obtained per favour of Queensland Department of 
Agriculture.) 
Other seed varieties have been asked for, and are expected from 
Louisiana, Madagascar, Singapore, Hongkong, and West Indies. 
RICE-GROWING IN LOUISIANA. 
Mr. ¥. W. Peek, of Beenleigh, who by his enthusiasm in the work of 
extending the rice-growing industry, will deserve to be held in honourable 
remembrance by the rice-growers of Queensland, has come to the conclusion 
that, after all, swamp rice may be cultivated on suitable lands. He has now 
either received some samples of paddy of this nature or has made arrangements 
for a small supply from different parts of the world. (Vide his article in this 
issue on ‘‘ The Ith Industry of Queensland.’’) 
The cultivation of all kinds of rice begins in the same manner as the 
cultivation of other cereals, but when the swamp rice is about 6 inches high 
it must receive different treatment to that accorded to upland rice. 
In South-western Louisiana the rice is irrigated from wells or bores. A 
lentiful water supply is found in some of the rice districts at depths varying 
from 100 to 200 feet. Bores from 4 to 5 inches in diameter are put down, 
and pumping machinery set up—not by the planters, but by the canal companies, 
who are paid on a “ tally” of one-fifth of the total crop. The water is pumped 
into canals, and each mile of canal will flood 1,000 acres of rice or 5,000 acres 
of other crops. In order to retain the water on the fields for the necessary 
length of time, small dams are built, and when the rice is from 6 to 12 inches 
high the fields are flooded to a depth of from 2 to 12 inches, until the heads are 
well filled. Then the water is run off, and the land is given time to dry before 
harvesting. 
An average yield is 1,600 1b. per acre. The harvesting formerly done 
with the sickle is now done by the self-binding harvester. Of these machines 
some 4,000 are in use, each doing the work of forty men. 
Rice straw has no equal as fodder for live stock. The milling is mostly 
done in the producing districts. The mills clean, sack, and sell the rice, 
receiving 50 cents (2s. 1d.) a sack (160 lb.) for the work. At this price a 
milling plant sometimes pays for itself in one season. 
