Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-22 | Page 10 | Fortunes in Rice

FORTUNES IN RICE Vast Possible Wealth Wasted in a Matrimonial Custom If a fellow throws an old shoe filled with rice after you when you get married this winter young man go pick every grain of it up said a a. rice enthusiast for far there Is a fortune in it I was Just thinking today about the vast amount of wealth that has been beeD wasted in this way and it is simply alarming when you c cometo come cometo me meto to think of it I went to the convention of rice men at Crowley recently and a d I learned a few things about rice that I never knew before Why the possibilities of a grain of ot rice will actually make a fellows fellow's head swim swim Here is a grain which I have been carrying in hi my pocket since the convention conven conven- tion thin purely for illustrative purposes ses I Iwas Iwas Iwas was reading In the Plaquemines Protector that one grain of or rice would bring in the first year sixty bunches bunches' of rice nce and that each bunch contained grains which wo would ld give a total yield of grains for the first year Now this Is no small thing when you come to think of it Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose WI wo we plant the grains the secondI second I year on the same basis we would have havea a yield of grams graIns which Is times Now the yield during the third year would amount to times on the same basis basic of computation tion which would be 33 grains of ot rice Now as I was was reading In another paper published in the rice section that there are probably 10 grains of rice to the jog pound dit but baust this g la is an approximation r h g Adopting it as correct e at the end of the third year one grain of rice will produce pounds of rice and the rice I mathematician allowing pounds for a barrel barre of rice figures that this will amount to 2 barrels 1 So So you can see that I am actually carryIng carrying car car- a fortune around here In my vest pocket and there Is plenty of ot room left t too for rl such u O other e things as I may want n to p put In my pocket In t these e e figures lu lun I hav have e made no allowances for those things which sometimes happen to any kind of seed that may be sown but there is a good lesson in the calculation at that When we come to think about the number r of grains of rice that have been wasted in the happy practice of ot tossing an old olde shoe e after a. a newly married e couple we weare arts are al almost i shocked h JY at the extravagance an of the world The rice thrown away in this way since the custom was first launched would have saved the lives Jives of all the people who have ever ever starved to death since the world began Jf It had been allowed to t-o reach Its full multiplying possibilities S So 1 i say sa young man when the old shoe Is Is' Is thrown after you go pick every grain of ot rice up settle down where rice will grow and get rich New New Orleans Times Democrat