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Show HUSK THE RICE BY HAND Methods In Use In Burma Are Susceptible Suscep-tible of Improvement, According to American Ideas. The moat popular method used by the Ilurmeae for husking rice la by the "chlke-eet" or revolving mill, which Is worked by band. This mill la niade of woven bamboo. The lower low-er bait Is stationary, with a cone shaped head of hardwood and bamboo eitendlng within the upper half, which revolvea around this cone when pushed push-ed backward and forward by means of. the handle. Hard bamboo twigs extending ex-tending crosswise In the upper portion por-tion busk the rice against the cone. Itetween the two sections Is a small opening through which the lice falls Into a plate or basket. The other method la by a wooden mortar, the pestle conalatlng of a block of wood at the end of a heavy bar working on a lever, which Is raised and lowered by the weight of the operator's oper-ator's body as be steps on and off the further end of the bar. These machines ma-chines are manufactured locally. There Is no doubt a considerable market In Burma for small rice machines ma-chines capable of handling two hundred hun-dred baaketa per day of twelve hours, coating c. t. f. Rangoon about f SO. The basket la the unit of measure In the rice trade of Hurma and consists of forty-aeven pounds unbusked rice or seventy-five pounds rlesned white rice. The machine must be provided with separators and three outshoots, L e (or white rice, coodle and busk. |