RICE--FROM PADDY TO BOWL Part 1

Description

Shows proper methods of growing, harvesting, and packing rice to insure a prime quality table product. Louisiana rice fields are watered and weeded. Rice is cut by a binder, shocked, threshed, and sacked. Emphasizes the value of crop rotation and of occasional use of rice fields as pastures to eliminate the pestiferous red rice plant.

Collection

Records of the Extension Service

Series

Motion Picture Films