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2. May, 1904, "Use of Eye Grass in Seed Mixtures/' pp. 

 105-106; Oct. 1904, "Perennial and Italian Eve Grass/' pp. 

 418 419. J f 



m mu 



ltye tii ass. 



iam. [L. ' italicum, A. Br,); Italian 



Annual or biennial, 2 to 4 it. Europe, and also cultivated 

 in New Zealand, Argentine, &c. Recommended as a pasture 

 grass and for hay in alternate husbandry; and has been found 

 very successful grown alone under irrigation in connect ion with 

 sewage farms. Commercial seed grown in the countries above- 

 mentioned and also produced in the North of Ireland. 



2. April, 1915, "Suggestions for the Cultivation of Catch 



Crops and Home-Grown Feeding Stuffs," p. 2o. 



3a. No. 28, 1916, ibid., p. 3. 

 Secale cereale, Linn.; Eye- 



Annual. Cultivated under several varieties in Northern Europe, 



Central Europe and N. America, the imports coming chiefly from 



Russia (493954), United States (234651), Canada (192987), 



Germany (TTOUT), Roumania (15680), and cultivated also in 

 France and England as a green fodder crop and for the grain 

 used like wheat for making bread, though for this purpose in 

 England it is not so much in favour because of the dark colour 

 of the flour. The grain is amongst other grasses the commonest 



to 



* * 



matrix of tfc Ergot " (Clac<iceps purpurea, Tul.) and in countries 

 where rye bread is a staple food, the people are subject to 



Ergotism/' a disease which ultimately paralyses the lower 

 limbs.* 



2. March, 1909, "Production of Hand Thrashed Rye Straw 



in France/' pp. 926-927; Oct., 1917, "Grain Crop, " pp. 731- 



733. 



3a- No. 28, 1916, " Suggestions for the Cultivation of Catch 

 Crops and Home-Grown Feeding Stuffs/' p. 3. 



. Triticum sativum, Lam.; Common Wheat. 



Annual. Cultivated in many varieties, including "Flint 

 Wheats" (T. durum, Desf.), " Rivet Wheats " (T. tvrgidum, 

 Linn.), &c. Grain imported chiefly from the United States 



(38156097), Canada (24402448), British India (21018032), 

 Argentine (16526944), Australia (11341857), Russia (5612432), 

 Chile (856912), Germany (501312), New Zealand (62944), 

 Roumania (43232), Turkey in Europe (.19984), Turkey 

 in Asia (5936), Persia (11200), Netherlands (1792), Belgium, 

 Bulgaria and Uruguay (no imports in 1913 from the last three 

 countries). The United Kingdom produced in the same year 

 (1913) approximately 34,017,840 centals. 



The entire dependence on this familiar cereal for bread and 

 the use of the milling residue as bran, &c, for feeding stock, 

 gives it first place as a foodstuff in the Order, and it is, perhaps, 

 equalled only by rice in the whole series under review. The 

 Flint varieties are) largely used in Southern Europe. Italy 

 especially, for making Vermicelli, Macaroni and Semolina. 



• See * Plants Poisonous to Live Stock/ 9 H. B. Long (1917), pp. 88-91, for 

 particulars of this poisonous fungus. . 



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