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Alabama and Georgia. Now when it is well known that 

 beets producing 12 per cent, of sugar can be worked with 

 profit the above results are at least encouraging in view of 

 the extremely unfavorable conditions under which the plants 

 were raised at Auburn. 



Bengal Gram or Chick-pea. (Cicer Ariettnum.) 



The name arietiuum is given to this plant because of a 

 fanciful resemblance of its seed to a ram's head. In India 

 and Egypt the peas are parched and sold in the markets to 

 the natives for the best food to carry on long journeys. An 

 excellent use in this country for the seeds would be for stock 

 food, although not quite so valuable as the ordinary cow- 

 peas. It will also serve as good food for fowls. 



Green gram or Small Fruited Kidney Bean. (Phaseolus 



3Iungo.) 



The peas are deep green in color, quite small and are 

 delicate in flavor. The plants come to maturity very early 

 before the ordinary green peas of our gardens are ready to 

 gather. 



Sesame, Gingelly, Til seed or Oily-grain. (Sesamum ori- 



eiitale.) 



The seeds of this plant are used by the natives in India 

 and Africa for expressing an oil not unlike or inferior to the 

 oil of almonds. An attempt has also been made to manu- 

 facture salad oil ("olive") from the seeds but without much 

 success. The Jews of Jamaica also use the seeds for ma- 

 king a cake much relished by them. The chief value of the 

 plant, however, is in the oil extracted which has fine keep- 

 ing qualities. Two varieties were grown in the Botanical 

 Gardens at Auburn the past season, viz : White and Yellow 

 Sesame. 



