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Show OLD ORDER REVERSED. California is now making heavy shipments ship-ments of rice to China and Japan, as well as to several European countries. According to the press dispatches, a contract calling for 700,000 bags of California rice, worth over $4,200,000 and representing about half the crop of a single 36.000-acre plantation, has been recorded in the Providence and Maxwell irrigated districts, and the vice is now going forward to Rosenberg Rosen-berg Bros, of San Francisco at 6 cents a pound and at the rate of 10,000 sacks a day. The rice involved in this sale is said to be enough to supply the entire United States for a period of nearly two months. After being milled in the Rorenberg mills, approximately SO per cent of this California rice will be exported ex-ported to Sweden, Norway and Japan. In the two former countries, where practically no rice is grown, the California Cali-fornia gTain is bringing about 35 cents a pound. In Japan the recent rice famine has resulted in an unprecedented unprece-dented demand for Arr..?rican-gTOwn rice and the California product is bringing about 1? cents a pound. According to statistics made public here, California now rauks fourth among the states of the Union in the production of rice. These same fig-urea fig-urea show that in the United States the per capita consumption of rice is six pounds, while in many European countries, notably Crermany, the per capita consumption is from 60 to 70 pounds. |