CONTENTS 



OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. 



BOOK XVIII. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN. 

 Chap. Pagf; 



1. Taste of the ancients for agriculture i. 1 



2. When the first wreaths of corn were used at Rome 3 



3. The jugerum of land 4 



4. How often and on what occasions corn has sold at a remarkably 



low price 7 



5. Illustrious men who have written upon agriculture 9 



6. Points to be observed in buj-ing land 11 



7. The proper arrangements for a farm-house 13 



8. Maxims of the ancients on agriculture 16 



9. The different kinds of grain 19 



10. The histoiy of the various kinds of grain j'v. 



11. Spelt 24 



12. Wheat 25 



13. Barley : rice 27 



14. Polenta 28 



15. Ptisan 29 



16. Tragum ... ib. 



17. Amvlum ib. 



18. The nature of barley 80 



19. Ariuca, and other kinds of grain that are grown in the East .. 31 



20. Winter wheat. Similago, or fine flour 32 



21. The fruitfulness of Africa in wheat 35 



22. Sesame. Erysimum or irio. Horminum 36 



23. The mode of grinding corn id. 



24. Millet 38 



25. Panic ib. 



26. The various kinds of leaven ib. 



27. The method of making bread : origin of the art 39 



28. When bakers were first introduced at Rome 40 



29. Alica 41 



30. The leguminous plants : the bean 43 



31. Lentils. Pease 46 



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