RICE

One of the most widely cultivated of tho cereals, pric | the staple food of at least a third of the human race. It was a native to Indias, but is now cultivated wherever there is suficient heat and moisture, It is grown in vast quantities in the gee deltas and low alluvial plains of India, Burma, i Japan and Java. The hot weer Carolina and the well-watered p of Lombardy are also famous rice-growing Cistricts. Rice when fermented oo an alcoholic liquor named arrack, -Enown in the East Indies. [s. 259]