Show how the useful plants came to mankind by STEWARD rice gilr RI r uie principal food of the teeming eastern pool les Is na an live to ahina and to oilier other arm lamp damp regions in the eastern and southern parts of asia including many parts of india aa it crain grain however it Is I 1 the gift of filou li it ito tt e world I 1 or many centuries be or url t it was culah eted in china klam slam and india and mich more recently it spread into the near last and thence into I 1 apt at the time of Ale Alei sanders anders expeditions into india a about aut 11 C rice growing had resal l but probably not 1 in the annual ceremony of planting instituted by th chinese emperor chin nong in 2800 P C rice plays the principal part amoc the five food plants sown sawn which are rice wheat sorghum millet and the eoy soy bean all of these were presumed by nong to be b native to china brinly rice was wm as wai was the soy bean in to a treatise on the origin of rice de do Can dolle report reports that the old dope does not mention rice flee blia a careful and judicious riter rey nier tiler hai has remarked passage lo 10 the talmud which relate to hal iti cultivation these fact facts lead us to suppose that the indians cultivated rice flee after titter the chinese and that it spread later toward the euphrates earlier however then than the aryan in into india A thousand years elapsed between the eili existence tence of rice cultivation in and its I 1 transportation into syria whence it was wa introduced into only after the interval of two f cr r three cert urles more there Is ao a trace of rice amons among the train ergin remains in or any depiction depletion of it in the ing in of ancient egypt A alid rice that belongs to the true family erow grows abundantly in certain adli tracts of the northern nor thero united santes wild rice alio also prows grows cantly in some rens of india it was inevitable however that a country so well adapted to ture lure conducted by irrigation as fript should eventually adopt rice it nas sas carried into spain by the arabe arabs during the moorish domination of the iberian peninsula but was not culta voted to in italy until 1488 1468 about the middle vt the last century it wag was brought to america as a field crop and planted in Loul louisiana danal where it now nourished nou as at it does on some of the adjacent lands in southern tr tot at alone along the gulf coast the sanskrit name for rice was taunya the ancient greek bruzon tie arab name r uz or arous from which came the spanish arroz it can be seen that the F anglish word bears a close hose relationship to these CIN fal ill 1123 Wel tefft |