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Show FORTUNES IN RICE. Vast Possible Wealth Wasted in a Matrimonial Custom. "If a fellow throws nn old shoe filled with rice after you when )nu get mnrrle,; this winter, oung man ro pick every Rraln of It up," said n rlco enthusiast, 1 for thero Is a fortune in It, I was Just thinking today about the vast amount of wealth that Ins been wasted In this way, and It Is simply alarming when ion come and It is simply alarming when ou come to think of it. I went to the convention nf rice men nt rrowley recently, and I learned a few thing" about rlco that I never knew before. Why, tho possibilities of a grain of rice will actually make a fellows head swim, "Hero Is a Rraln which I havo heen earning In my pocket since tho convention, conven-tion, purely for Illustrative purposes. I was rending In the Plaquemines Protector that ono grain of rlco would bring In the first ear sixty bunches of rlco. nnd that each bunch contained 2M grains, which would give a total vleld of 15 mo gralna for tho tlrst year. Now, this Is no small thing when you come to think of It, Hup-poso Hup-poso wo plant the 15000 grains the second year, on tho samo basis we would have a )leld of ziofunmo grains, which Is 15 times 15) Now, tho yield during tho third venr would amount to r,(Ml times 2iyo ton on tho same bisls of computation, computa-tion, which would be 33T5onOOm) grains nf rice. Now, ns I was reading In another paper, published In the rice section that there are prnlwibly 1U0 grains nf rice to the pound, hut this la nn approximation. Adopting It nn correct, ot the end of Iho third )ear one grain of rite will produce J37Mooii pouniia of rice, and the rice mathematician allowing K2 pounds for a barrel of rice, ngurea that this will amount to 3 0S3 333 barrels. Ho )ou can see that I am actually car-nlnp car-nlnp a fortune around hero In m) vest pocket, nnd there Is plenty of room left, too, for such other things as I ma) want to put In my pocket, in theso figures I have made ro allowances for those things which sometimes happen to any kind of seed that may be sown, but there Is u, good Irsson In the cab illation at that hen wo come to think about tho number of grains of rice that have been wasted In tho happy practlco or tossing an old shoe alter a newly-married eouplo we hto almost shocked nt the extraviigance ot the world The rlco thrown away In this way slnco tho custom was tlrst launched would have saved the lives ot all tho people who havo ever starved to death since the world began, If It hnd been allowed to reach Its full multlnltlmc possibilities Ho 1 sa), young man, when tho old shoo Is thrown after vou, go pick ever) grain nf rice up settle clown whero rlco will grow, nnd get rich 'New Orleans Tlmes-Iiemocrat. |