At head of title: Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany.

Introductory -- Rice in the United States -- Can the United States grow its own rice? -- Methods of rice cultivation in the United States : South Carolina and Georgia -- North Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi -- Eastern Louisiana -- Southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas -- Genera notes on culture and treatment of rice : preparing the ground -- Sowing -- Injury to bloom -- Flooding -- Harvesting -- Thrashing -- Fertilizing -- Soils adapted to rice -- Wages and efficiency of labore in different countries -- Primitive rice milling -- Commercial rice milling -- Rice milling in Europe -- The uses of rice : Rice as food -- By-products of rice culture -- Red rice -- Rice in Asia and the Pacific Islands -- Rice in Africa -- Rice in Europe -- Rice in Central and South America.