Recent Foreign Explorations

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Excerpt from Recent Foreign Explorations: As Bearing on the Agricultural Development of the Southern StatesThe introduction of Kiushu rice by the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture in 1899 was the first step taken toward improving the conditions of rice grow ing in southern Louisiana and Texas, and the marked development of the rice industry since that time is in a large measure due to the value of this variety. There were still other problems connected with the rice industry, however, as well as those which concerned the improve ment of extensive tracts of pine. Lands occurring in many of the Southern States, which remained unsolved. These problems could be best approached by first securing all the information available in foreign lands, and Dr. S. A. Knapp was commissioned to go to Asia to make a careful study of the rice industry and to secure such seeds as he might decide were valuable.Dr. Knapp's report deals with the life of the peoples among whom he traveled, as well as with the methods and cost of rice production and the cultivation and production of certain other crops, and alto gether it constitutes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the agriculture and the condition of the farming communities of these countries.The report is submitted for publication as Bulletin No. 35 of the Bureau of Plant Industry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.