.Softening of starch and cellulose by addition of water.
I Blight.
Fungi.. < Mildew.
| Must.
Insects J ?reeVes* *
\ Moths.
Many feed on insects and seeds injurious to grain.
Birds Bobolink exception, causing great loss to rice grow-
ers.
f Feeding and fattening animals.
! Imitation coffee.
I Intoxicating liquors.
Food and litter for animals.
Hats.
Mats.
Bedding.
Thatching.
Packing.
f Beds.
■I Packing.
[ Adulteration.
Ceres, goddess of corn.
Cerealia feast held in Rome.
Wheat
Native of Lands around Mediterranean.
Color
Varieties
Red.
White.
Time of sowing ^P™
& \ Win
Appearance j
ing.
inter.
Bearded.
Bald.
Food value . . .Easy of digestion ; almost perfect food.
48
Uses.
Bread.
Breakfast foods .
Flakes.
Granules.
Germs, etc.
[Macaroni.
Pastes J Spaghetti.
I Vermicelli.
[ Introduced into China 2700 B. C.
Historv J Used as vegetable in early Middle Ages in Eng-
( America greatest wheat field of the- world.
Varieties ....f£lack.
1V\ hite.
Uses .
Breakfast foods.
Hulled.
Steamed.
Eolled.
Food value .
Thin cakes from meal.
Food for horses.
[Very nutritious if sufficiently cooked and hull
I removed.
[ In cultivation before Christian era.
History ' Grown in colder climates than wheat.
[ AVild oats used for hay in California.
Xative of.
Uses
History.
.Central Asia.
Barley water.
Fermented liquors.
Soups.
Bread.
First of all grasses used for food.
Up to middle of seventeenth century principal
breadstuff of England.
Xative of
Food value
Uses .
History
India.
Northern Australia.
Large quantity of starch.
Little protein and fat.
Easy of digestion — one hour.
Vegetable.
Cakes.
Puddings.
Adulterate wheat flour.
Fatten poultry.
Saki by fermentation.
Food of one-third population of world.
Asia and America two largest rice fields.
Eequires much water during growth.
Native of Black and Caspian seas.
Next to wheat.
Food value Harder of digestion, caused by acetous fermen-
tation.
49
Eye
Uses .
Com
Bread (Russia.
[ Germany.
Thin cakes. Sweden.
Substitute for coffee.
Whisky \_ _
Kvass > By fermentation.
Grows on poorer soil and in colder clime than other cereals.
Native of America.
Distinguishing features
Largest and handsomest.
Bearing two kinds of flowers.
Uses .
( White.
™- ter
(Pop.
f Nutritious.
Food value {Rich in oil.
[Cheapest cereal.
Breads.
To cheapen wheat bread by admix-
ture.
Vegetable.
Fodder.
Fattening animals.
Distilling. \
Sugar.
Oil.
Paper.
Fuel.
In cultivation before discovery of
America.
In 1847 potato famine increased its
use in Ireland.
Supplanting millet in South Africa.
National bread of Mexico.
Tortillas.
Polenta in Italy.
!As they contain all the nutrients,
meats and more expensive foods
can be used in smaller quantities
where whole grain is used.
History .
Specimens J en t preparations
( Grains on the straw and the differ-
ent preparations.
Plants grown in school.
N. N.
PUPIL'S EXERCISE ON LESSON ON CEREALS.
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.Softening of starch and cellulose by addition of water.
I Blight.
Fungi.. < Mildew.
| Must.
Insects J ?reeVes* *
\ Moths.
Many feed on insects and seeds injurious to grain.
Birds Bobolink exception, causing great loss to rice grow-
ers.
f Feeding and fattening animals.
! Imitation coffee.
I Intoxicating liquors.
Food and litter for animals.
Hats.
Mats.
Bedding.
Thatching.
Packing.
f Beds.
■I Packing.
[ Adulteration.
Ceres, goddess of corn.
Cerealia feast held in Rome.
Wheat
Native of Lands around Mediterranean.
Color
Varieties
Red.
White.
Time of sowing ^P™
& \ Win
Appearance j
ing.
inter.
Bearded.
Bald.
Food value . . .Easy of digestion ; almost perfect food.
48
Uses.
Bread.
Breakfast foods .
Flakes.
Granules.
Germs, etc.
[Macaroni.
Pastes J Spaghetti.
I Vermicelli.
[ Introduced into China 2700 B. C.
Historv J Used as vegetable in early Middle Ages in Eng-
( America greatest wheat field of the- world.
Varieties ....f£lack.
1V\ hite.
Uses .
Breakfast foods.
Hulled.
Steamed.
Eolled.
Food value .
Thin cakes from meal.
Food for horses.
[Very nutritious if sufficiently cooked and hull
I removed.
[ In cultivation before Christian era.
History ' Grown in colder climates than wheat.
[ AVild oats used for hay in California.
Xative of.
Uses
History.
.Central Asia.
Barley water.
Fermented liquors.
Soups.
Bread.
First of all grasses used for food.
Up to middle of seventeenth century principal
breadstuff of England.
Xative of
Food value
Uses .
History
India.
Northern Australia.
Large quantity of starch.
Little protein and fat.
Easy of digestion — one hour.
Vegetable.
Cakes.
Puddings.
Adulterate wheat flour.
Fatten poultry.
Saki by fermentation.
Food of one-third population of world.
Asia and America two largest rice fields.
Eequires much water during growth.
Native of Black and Caspian seas.
Next to wheat.
Food value Harder of digestion, caused by acetous fermen-
tation.
49
Eye
Uses .
Com
Bread (Russia.
[ Germany.
Thin cakes. Sweden.
Substitute for coffee.
Whisky \_ _
Kvass > By fermentation.
Grows on poorer soil and in colder clime than other cereals.
Native of America.
Distinguishing features
Largest and handsomest.
Bearing two kinds of flowers.
Uses .
( White.
™- ter
(Pop.
f Nutritious.
Food value {Rich in oil.
[Cheapest cereal.
Breads.
To cheapen wheat bread by admix-
ture.
Vegetable.
Fodder.
Fattening animals.
Distilling. \
Sugar.
Oil.
Paper.
Fuel.
In cultivation before discovery of
America.
In 1847 potato famine increased its
use in Ireland.
Supplanting millet in South Africa.
National bread of Mexico.
Tortillas.
Polenta in Italy.
!As they contain all the nutrients,
meats and more expensive foods
can be used in smaller quantities
where whole grain is used.
History .
Specimens J en t preparations
( Grains on the straw and the differ-
ent preparations.
Plants grown in school.
N. N.
PUPIL'S EXERCISE ON LESSON ON CEREALS.