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Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Agricultural Products, Exhibited in the World's Columbian Exposition In Japan no custom duties are imposed on the foreign export of rice. The following is the summary* of the cultivation Of the rice grown in paddy fields or Ta. The Choice of Seed -the seed for sowing ought to be of the best quality, thoroughly matured, quite free from injury and true to its variety. In order to select such genuine seed, there are several methods in practice, the most common of which is that, those grains which are formed at the upper half of health ful and fruitful grown ears are taken as seed, but recently the grains liberated from ears are immersed in a cask filled with cold water or still better with brine, and those which float on the surface of the water are rejected, and those only which sink to the bottom are taken as pure seed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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