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RICE THE UNIVERSAL FOOD.
this cereal, compared
and India.
Non acres in the United States are now used for growing rice, while all of South America devores but 135.000 acres of its vast territory to the pro- duction of this important cereal. From these figures it will be seen tha: rice culture is confined largely to the continent of Asia.
From time immemorial rice has been cultivated: throughout the warm
great care.
Telephone 29.
Practically all of the world's proj duction of rice-la planted), grown and harvested in this primitive manner. {
THE CHINA MÀIL,
BARLIER TELEGRAMS.
A recent estimate seates that the aver¦ (Router's Service to the China Mail.}
age annual production of rice amounts to over 4,000,000,000 bushels, as compared to 3,000,800,000 bushels of wheat. In Japan it is stated that the average consumption of rice by one person amounts to 330 pounds, annually.
THE FRENCH STRIKE.
PARIS, May 22.›
́CHINESE TRADING.
TEN YEARS' DEVELOPMENT,
BANKING ENTERPRISES.
One of the most striking features
the
WEDNEUDAY, MAY 16, 2920.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Received new shipments
of
LAMB, MUTTON, BEEF, RABBITS, HARES,
A Havas message sales-After a of the past decade in the Straits has speech by M. Millerand, the French been (says the Free Prest) At the present time a very small Chamber of Deputies yesterday ended phenomenal development of commer production of the world's production the debate on the general strike. A cial concerns among the Chinese. It of rice figures in international trade. resolution of confidence was carried by In most of the rise-producing coun- 531 votes to 86. It states the Chams no new thing to discover that the KIPPERS, tries the consumption keeps pace with, ber approves the action of the Govern Chinese are excellent business men, the production and there is little or
ment and is determined to assure with that their age-old methods of book- nore for export purposes. The in equal energy freedom to work and keeping, and systems of credits and ternational trade in rice is about one trade union rights to maintain respect tenth as great as the trade in wheat, for the laws of the republic against any
basking are not outy sound, The surplus of Asia is taken by anempe to set up a dictatorship and but were long far in advance Europe, although India, together with that it thanks the workers for resisting of European methods. When our Chirs. are the only countries that by a very great majority the move ancestors were running about in blue have rice to spre for shipmentment directed against the vital inter- undress clothes in the woods, the abroad. Burma esports average about Tests of the nation,
Chinese were practising many of the 13.200,000 tons a year, while those of The National Council of the French rules of business which belong to a Siam and Indo-China average over General Labour Confederation aher highly civilised state of Society. But | 1,000,000 tons anually.
several days. discussion yesterday the remarkable change to which we vored! for a resumption of work by 96 refer is the development of the vores to 11. As a matter of fact most limited liability company business of the trade unionists had already among Straits Chinese. They have been decided the question for themselves which have partners of limited liabi
proprietors of private trading concerns and only the extremists still stood out.lity, ship companies and merchants
were
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GERMANY.
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from Australi
FINNAN HADDOCKS, FILLET HADDOORS,
direct from the Scottish, Fisheries.
PICNIC
CHEESE
Prepared by us
and put up in neat glass jars
at 30 cents per jar.
THE DAIRY FARM, 10E & COLD STORAGE Os, Ltd.
JOSEF PILSUDSKI.
THE RULER OF POLAND.
FIDDLED TO CATS.
HERMITS LIFE ON 19LAND.
in
rowing, about night
The story of rice in America is something more than agricultural wateg. May or Jane is the planting romance-ir is adventure. Ir began time, and the seeds are selected within the early Spring of 1694. when a To insure uniform growth Portuguese bark, driven from her It is estimated that 163,000,000 and ripening, heavy and hard grains of course by rempests, sheltered in the
After living for many years the with an elaborate system of division acres, of the earth's surface are now, the same harvest, are sown. This port of Charleston, Carolina Colony,
of the profits: but there has always. [FROM MAJOR CECIL BATTINE.] life of a hermit at Yarmouth (I O.W.), devoted to raising, rice. By far the seed. known as the "puddy." is ex-When repairs were made the ship.
Edward Richard Pitt Fittis has died been a strong personal element in greatest areas under cultivation are to posed to the open air for four or five sailed away, bequeathing to the young
BERLIN, MAY 22.
their business. The Towkay, or
at the age of 82 years. He seldom Poland was at the same time worked, charitable residents in the be found in Asia, where 90 per cent days and then, just before planting, settlement its chief industry, and to
When the future
the chief proprietor of the chop Republic and an elective monarchy neighbourhood supplying him with American people the The publicist, Herr Maximilian himself usually attended to of the world's crop is produced, the seed is steeped in water.
the but, the title adopted by Kosciusko food and clothing. Most of his time Japan, including Kores and Formosa, the seed is thrown over the surface cheapest of wholesome foods. Gov Harden. writing in the Zukunft, pre-huainess and as a rule looked into the leader of the great national during the day was spent on the has over 1,000,000 acres proucing of the field, the water is stirred and error Langrave Smith was especially diets the imminence of another re the details pretty closely with his revolt against the Russians, was sea-shore, and
with about made as muddy as possible. The hospitable to the shipwrecked captain, | actionary revolk The danger centres manager or chief assistant. This simply Chief of the State, and that
20 old boat.. At 135,000.000 acres of rice in China mud, settling lightly, covers the grain who returned the courtesy in the form are the south and north-east of Geracted admirably in the case of in title has been resumed by Joses
could The Kappites have been en-dustries and business dealing with Pilsudski, the Generalissimo of the in his little dwelling playing a violin, generally be seer The Philippine Islands and affords protection while insuring of a gik more precious than all the many.
It was encouraged by the Government's concrete values. for "the master's Polish armies. He is accustomed to with several cats (his le com raise crops from nearly 3,000,000 rapid development and a good root sys- gold and ivory on the vessel.
leniency, and thousands of ex-officers eye is worth forty per cent. in busi receive all persons, whase political panions) seated on the table as an acres, while Java and Sumatra culti-tem. After the plants have reached a bag of Leed rice. vate rice lands of over 6,600,000 a certain growth the transplinting Meanwhile the story of rice was are awaiting the signal. Workers are ness. The Chinese now have composition or whose information may audience. Pittis lived all his life and This operation takes place in interwoven in the history of another not likely again to save the Govern-panies for barking, for insurance, for be of use to him. He resides at the dies in the house in which he was acres. Over three-quarters of a mil- follows.
other fields that have been prepared romantic American period. ir 1755ment. Bavaria, is a favourable groundland, for a combine of industries or a for the young shools, or which have the Arcadians exiled from for reaction and is unwilling to remain monopoly far exceeding in number the Belvedere Falace, just within the born. He had never been on a train, been bearing, crops.
Nova Scoria, from whence they made within an empire in which it has little concerns of ten years ago, and this southern quarter of the town, and or crossed to the mainland, and had a drive of five minutes in a motor never travelled more than about four The transplanting process involves their pilgrimage to Louisiana, where ireedom.
is a different kind of "business," de car from the great offices of State.miles from his home, and that was pending largely on the area over I was received in the anteroom to in a rowing boat Until ten days a great amount of labour, which is they settled in communities on the done largely by women. In each hill western prairies of the state.
PRESIDENT OF FRENCH REPUBLIC. which the Company is working. It his apartments, and treated with before his death Pittis had never
is too soon get to say how these cofrank. cordiality. The Dictator has been attended by a doctor. of the rice field from six to twelve they looked upon the new land which
cerns will tura cut. A life assurance no pretensions, nor invests himself Shoots are planted and, up to the time they occupied-land usually half food-
company, for instance, must have with any ceremonial. the flowers appear on the young plants,d by heavy rainfall-they despaired
PARIS, May 24.
survived a score of years before it the water is frequently changed-a of the future, for the flat prairies President Deschanel had a narrow
These Polish palaces are furnished" county family," but has always quite knows where it stands. A fire regions of the world. The cereal is process which prevents damage to the seemed good for nothing except mut escape from death. In trying to open insurance company has to spread its with taste in the French Louis XV professed very democratic views, and claimed to be of Indian origin. and i crop. In dry seasons the water must weeds and grass. Providence gave a window on his train, he fell on risks over a wide field, and guard style, and contain very beautiful still calls himself a Socialist, although has been identified with the daily he be provided from a nearby canal or theprice, the cukure of which grew the line near Montargis. The in against a stunning loss by reinsur objets d'art. By bis writing table his policy has perforce been influenced of the Far East is the most important river, or carried to the field in such tos rger extent each year, cident was not observed. He did not ances. A bank, is not merely a the General bad a great mass of by the peculiar, exigencies of Poland food for the native population because devices as the farmer may possess. The rice pioneers in Louisiana and lose consciousness, and walked two place where depositors flock to leave ac; he walked across the room, in the making and by the menace of meat and vegetables do not form prace Numerous enemies menace the crops Texas faced the problem of carrying kilometres, when he met a railway their money and send cheques, to pushed a chair to me, and seated foreign invasion. Still his Govern tical foods for densely populated re- up to the time of harvesting, and the the water from the bayous to the landworker who assisted him to a signal get some of it out. There does not, himself. In reply to questions about ment is generally criticised by Con- gions and cannot be economically pro- planter must be vigilant against the The land was fat from horizon to cabin. from where a motor-car was however, seem any
why the prospects of peace, he closed and servatives as being too mild, too duced where millions of persons exist destructive enemies of the young horizon, and from Afteen to forty summoned and he was conveyed to entirely Chinese managed affairs, shook his fist
Thus," he said, weak, and I certainly seems probable the Bolsheviks are offering me that a more authoritative line will. without wealth or ambition. A small Plants, such as ras, birds, animals feet about sea level. The pioneers Montargis. He wns very badly restricted to Chinese shareholders, as surface of land, on the other hand, and insects. In Cochin-China alone realized that some sort of pumping bruised and scratched. Anti-tetanus is the case with the lately established peace, with the band closed, so thus have to be adopted if the administra system was required. They expert serum has been injected as a precar-Lee Wah Bank, should not serve a brought his fist down on the table. restored to efficiency. For example, must meet their proposals," and he tive services of the country are to be properly treated by the most crude it is stated that 20,000,000 rats were methods of irrigation and planted with killed in a single year.
mented first with pumps built on the tionary measure. No anxiety is fel.
useful purpose among the already pro Be explained that he not only desired Poser, the German province of rice, will produce grain enough to
Rice planes attain their full growth principal of the Archimedian screw.
sperous Chinese community. The rub, give food to a large number of people in about five months, and during this From this crude beginning has been and at the same time afford employ- time, the field receive the constant developed great centrifugal pumps The harvest which move 65,000 gallons of water ment for many by reason of the ele-attention of the farmers. menury methods and appliances used begins with draining the fields when per minute, and these pumps are now in its preparation for consumption, the rice stalks appear like a field of the means of transforming large areas The cooking of rice in Japan and China fears knocked down by a strong wind of waste land into great fields of way- is a simple process. The cereal is In this condition the gathering of the ing, golden rice. Arkansas and Cali- washed in a wooden bucket and cook crops must be accomplished by hand, fornia also have taken up its cultiva- ed in an iron pot; the stove is a small
tion with increasing success. Arkan clay box, without a chimney, and, to
sas soil is said to be the best adapted secure a draft, the operator must fum
to the Honduras variety, and the the flames. Rice is a grain that has
Oriental varieties are grown to better played a spectacular part in the reli-
advantage in California. gious ceremonials of Oriental peoples In Japan rice was used as money and, it is recorded, the feudal fords of that country once demanded tribute of their vassals in the form of Kike.
for ages.
as machinery for working the rice fields of the Oment has met with little or to attention on the part of manu- facturers up to this time.. The nature of the soil in the Far East is not adapted to operating heavy tractors or meral implements and no substitute for the abundant and cheap labour warrants serious consideration on the part of rice culturalists.
34,000 FOREST ACRES.
MORE TREES FOR BRITAIN, "
Efforts to increase the acreage of forest land in the United Kingdom are detailed in a report issued by the Forestry Commission, which was ap pointed last November.
reason
of course, comes in when these purely peace, but desired to do away with Poland, had an excellent administra Chinese concerts come into contact the age-long causes of war, hatred, tion; and much wight be effected by with what are practically interna and bloodshed between Poland and treating it as a model for the Russia. In the past each nation had administration of the whole country, tional enterprises. Take for instance
PROGRESS OF HOSTILITIES.
some
a Japanese Bank in Singapore. It alternately made its military power but jealousy has, so far, prevented it. could no doubt do good business felt over the rival in the process Pilsudski came from the country among the nationals of Japan who the western provinces of Russia had at the foot of the Carpathians. He live here. But it is not just for that more than once changed hands. He has spent a lifetime in working for purpose that the big Japanese banks now proposed to fix the territorial the independence of Poland, and come. The branches are a part of boundary by the wishes and votes of raised the first Polish forces with the great.commercial and financial the inhabitants according to the Prince Radzewill to fight the Rus world, and that we suppace will be principles professed by the Allied sians. They the Germans sus-
Powers. the next development of the Chinese
pected his motives, deprived him In dealing with the planting pro companies, who are well enough
of his command, and imprisoned him In Louisiana and Texas rice lands gramme for this year, the shortage of aware of the requisites for successful The General bad Bern suffering with considerable harshness in a are prepared for the season's crop in forest tree seed was met to a great and world-wide business. There is with indisposition due to overwork. fortress, where he was very ill. He March and April, and planting is extent, stare the Commissioners, by no doubt plenty of capital available. He seemed to be under the influence had been in prison before. The usually in full swing about the tenth purchases in Austria and elsewhere, though possibly not too much for of reports which announced consider Russians bad arrested him for a of April. The planting season in and by gifts from the United States the big schemes that are afoat. Itable activity on the front and con-political "crime" before the war, After the stalks have been curdown Arkansas and California is a
little and Canada,
is believed to be a characteristic tinuous concentration of Red troops, and condemned him to a long sent Although there are some Afty varie. by hand.. they are made into bundles later. The great pumps are then About 34,000 acres of afforestable of the Chinese to expect to see which particularly threaten the Polish ence of imprisonment in Siberia, of ties of rice. there are but three usually and tied with twisted straw. Then started up, large canals which bave land are in course of acquisition by a return on their mocey very forces in Eastern Galicia. To-day, which he actually served nine years, mer with in international trade. In they are taken from the field either by been idle for a number of months are purchase or on lease, in some cases soon after putting it in. That is March 1, fighting is reported from. These years of suffering, and the commercial handling these are known hand or in push-carts. A comb-like again swellen to the top of their below the market value, and in others hardly possible in the more intricate that front. These fights are affairs great burden of his present task as-garden rice, glutinous rice and device is used for heading the rice banks, gates are opened to lot water us free gifs from landowners. Over commercial ventures which they are of outposts, nor can greal attacks be have left their trace on the coun mountain rice. The garden variety this machine strips off the individual
and frame of Joseph on the fields which have been plant- 10.0000 acres are in England, 5,000 now attempting. Meanwhile, it is made by either Poles er Russians tenance kind referred to ia speaking generally are carefully bundled for future use which have been looking bare are under acquisition are in Scotland. Penang for the formation of a time, and of which two or three Central Europe east of German that grown on irrigated land is the grains. After this is done the stalks ed. and in a few days Large Reidsin Ireland and the remaining 18.000 interesting to read that there is a without a concentration of forces Pilsudski
proposal, to be: considered at which would necessitate
STATE OF CENTRAL EUROPE. The vast lands which constitute about rice. Glutinous rice, second in as fertilizer, while the peddy," or transformed like magic into areas of Planting is proceeding at 13 centres. Chinese Planters' Association "of weeks' notice, at any rate, would be importance, is so named because of unhulled grains, are placed in bags to green foliage. A continuous flow of Forest apprentices are receiving a Malaya, a further move for cam forthcoming.
territory are in a state of misery and its characteristics after boiling. This be transported to the mill..
water is constantly upon the rice fields two-year course in the Forest of Dean, bination for business purposes which variety is grown in flooded areas and in some instances the methods of during the growing period. This is the Naw Forest, and in Chopwell might have a beneficial result on the that the peace and war parties were Leved, culminating in the Russian General Pilsudski said that he knew chaos, which must be seen to be be requires but little attention during its husking and polishing rice, as are in done in order that no growth-destroy Woods, near Newcastle, and addition industry. growth: it will thrive under water and, vogue in the United States and other ing insects, rice maggots and numeral schools will be opened during the
pretty evenly balanced in the councils horrors and the decimating of the of the Soviet Government at present. Population of Moscow and other when ready for the market. is heavier progressive countries, are being adopt-ous other bugs which inhabit the rice year.
He did not know Lenia's opinions, great cities by typhus and starvation. then the other varieties mentioned. | cd by Asiatic planters. In Japan, to fields, may find still water in which An Imperial Conference to con-
but believed him to be undecided. Typhus and starvation are also stalk, In its cultivation tors are often used. day, are to be found old millstones in to breed. The growing period lasts sider the forest resources and policy of
Trotsky he believed to be in favouring the streets of Vienna. Poland The mountain variety is sometimes use for grinding rice; these stones are from seventy to ninety days. When the Empire is being organised for
of prosecuting the war against Poland is in better case. Order of a kind termed dry-land rice, and resembles grooved sand equipped with blades of the heads are ripe the fields are drain July, when a number of interested
with all energy as a prelude to a reigns; a well organised and dis- wheat, more than rice, in the methods hardwood running in opposite direc-ed, and as soon as the ground is firm persons are expected in England for
Bolshevik invasion of the other Cen- ciplined army is mobilised and is tions. In operation the lower stone the harvesting machinery, reapers and the British Empire Timber Exhibition,
tral European States. Pourparlers learning Its work. Though there In countries where land is scarce is stationary, while the upper one threshers, go upon the land and oper- The conference, it is hoped, will lead
were in progress with the Allies to is much robbery, bloodshed has been and labour abundant, rice is the most turns on an axle. Unhusked grain is ate with their usual marvellous to the establishment of an Imperial practical food for cultivation. Reach- fed through the upper stone and efficiency.
A loan, which is described as the gain assent to the Polish reply to the stopped within the State. At present Bureau of Forestry Information.
Sovlet proposals, and with the Rou-Foland contrasts, very favourably ing from Japan, across Chins and passes between the wooden blades.
largest amount any public authority manians and other Slay neighbours with some of her neighbours, and down through India, is a stretch of In many countries the most primitive
ever put on the market at once, was to concert joist action in case the stands like an oasis in the Slav under discussion by the L.C. last Bolsheviks should force on war. rice lands equalling over a hundred methods of "pounding the rice are
He desert. She has the elements of million acres and representing a mar- still in practice.
Louisiana is the oldest of the four month when the issue of seven could arm Half as many more troops vitality and of capacity to organise,
million pounds worth of London vellous irrigation project that has its
A certain amount of waste fellows is pounded through the hiller, and rice-producing states, Texas cores County Bonds was proposed in con. and thus have an irresistible reserve though every sort of periland....... equal in no other section of the world. these old-fashioned methods.
In a from the waste is produced rice bran, next, with Arkansas and California nection with the housing scheme. The more equipment were at his dis uncertainty.still besets the new State. A wonderful engineering construction single operation but half the grain is a canle food, and rice hulls, which following. During the last season amount proposed to be raised will posal and he had more cavalry, but Not only Bolsheviks, but the mem has been accomplished in this sec- husked and re-silting must follow. are too woody to be of much food Louisiana produced about 20,000,000 be provided under existing borrow. even as matters stood the General bers of the Paris Conference forgot tion through the necessities of the The winnowing or sifting is done by value. They are largely used for bushels on 446,571 acres.
Texas ing powers, and it is estimated that emphaticaily repeated his confidence that it is far easier to destroy govern millions of inhabitants combined with scooping up the grain and letting it fall packing around breakable articles. produced about 10,000,000 bushels the Housing of the Working Classes that the Pelsh forces could never be ment, and the order without which broken by the Bolshevik Russians. Civilisation soon relapses into bare native ingenuiry. The important part so that the wind separates the chaff The chaff and husks are eful for on 234,367 acres, Arkansas produced Act will involve five and a half He doubted the sincerity of the Rus-barism than to create them. Order played by water in the growing of rice from the grain. Crude appliances are fertilizer. The rise is polished by 6,000,000 bushels on 121,828 acres, millions, the Local Government
lan peace proposals because, and good government are struggling makes a field of this growing cereal used for this process, in some sec-friction against cylinders covered with and California's production was about Board Act a quarter of a million, although the Soviet Government for existence in this country, and the resemble a series of small lakes sev tions, but they have not proved to be soft sheepskin. The outer part that 3,000,000 bushels on 67,000 acres the Education Act a million, assuredly needed peace, yet the Allies, if they destre pesce, will do eral inches in depth. Soil dedicated as satisfactory as the simpler and is removed during the process of of land. The best average yield per the Main Drainage Act a quarter of position of the present rulers of well to assist as far as they can. The to this purpose must be level and laid more natural methods. →→
polishing is known as rice polish, the acre was made in California, with a million, Acts relating to tramways Russia, might in their own opinion work of French and British officers out ia plots, each one of which is When the process of polishing or most nutritious by-product of rice.Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana follow £280,000 and the cost of issue demand continuation of the war here has counted for much, and aurreanded with a three-foot dyke built “whitening " the rice is to be accom- In Louisiana there are about sixtying in the order named:
£220,000 á total of £7,000,000.
Several times General Pilsudski among the Polish patriots the uames of mud. When lands are so prepared plished the pestle and mortar are rice mills; Texas has about twenty; Since the first year of the war the
referred to the close resemblance of Paderewski and Floudski are most they are known as irrigated rice lands largely used. Both the pestle and the Arkansas has twelve and California exports of rice from the United States
between the course of the French famous. The future seems to depend and are used for the production of mortar are made of wood and designed nine. The coming years, however, have increased ten hold. Over
Revolution and its developments upon the statecraft, prudence, and common garden rice...
in the most simple fashion. The rice will see a large increase in the num. 282,000,000 pounds found their way de TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. and that of the Russian Revolution, military talent of the last named in Throughout the Far East the cultiva- is placed in the mortar and pounded her of mills in operation. These into foreign markets in the first ten TF your want a clone head and god." That is a guide," he said, "that in whose rule over Poland everyone. tion of rice is practicably along the with a heavy maket. Generally the mills fast year took care of a rice crop months of 1910, as compared with bowels become clogged with poisonous.
I digestion you must not let, or the hat is a guides the said seems agreed to acquiesce
of its cultivation.
J
At the mill the rough rice, or paddy goes, between closely set misones. Blowers separate grain from the 'cha Then the rice
the
LONDON'S BORROWING.
LARGEST BUM PUT ON MARKET.
same lines as those followed in China. ntives prefer grain prepared entirely of about 40,000.000 bushels... 425,420,000 pounds exported in the waste from the body, as is always tho The Polish Chief looks about three Sharp fighting is reported from the
The building of the dykes is but a part] by hand, finding in the rice so handled The marketing of rice in the United, same period of 1913. The value of care when you become cosstipend score. His bair is grizzled, his face south-east front to-day Bolshevik of the necessary operations in prepara special flavour and nutritive valde States is done through brokers, who this cereal, thus disposed of rose from Proper food, an abozdanen of water and hard and determined. His dark ores 90s continue to be reinforced. At ing the surface. The old stubble that are said to be lost when the pro- Lare to be found in every part of the $333,000 to over $25,000,000, repre- plenty of eridoor exercise should keep are very remarkable. Moreover the present the superiority of the Folish must be treaded down by bare feet duct is mechanically prepared, In country Attempts have been made sending an increase of over 300 per your bowels, regular. When abat fall ilustrated papers have produced his cavalry dominates the tactical situa
you should laks" Chamberlin's Tablets: and, when this is buried, the field is Japan. Siam end Burma, the introduc- by a large number of mills to sell cent. In 1012 the United States - The cause gentle movement the portrait, so that his appearance is not flooded and then undergoes a rough tion of modern machinery for polish their rice direct, but this was not posted 384,000,000 pounds of rice as bowels and are easy and plesssat to unknown to their readers. He is of plowing. Using a primitive hot, the ing rice has made considerable head- found as satisfactory as through the against 222,000,000 pounds in 1913, take For sale by all Chemists and an old Polish landowning family. top coll is thoroughly mixed with way,
brokerage system.
-Dun's Internatonal Review.
Storekeepers
which in England used to be called
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