Excerpt from Rice Culture
Rice forms the principal food of one-half the population of the earth. It is more widely and generally used as a food material than any other cereal. Where dense populations are dependent for food upon an annual crop, and the climate permits its cultivation, rice has been selected as the staple food. The luxuriant growth of leguminous plants (beans, peas, etc.) at all seasons in tropical climates provides the nitrogenous food elements necessary to supplement rice. A com bination of rice and legumes is a much cheaper complete food ration than wheat and meat and can be produced on a much smaller area.
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