RYE 



RYERSON 



of Northern Europe. The grain is sown broad- 

 cast or in drills, l.ke wheat, and from one and 

 one-half to two bushels of seed per acre are 

 required. Under favorable conditions the yield 

 is from twenty to thirty bushels per acre. The 

 price varies from fifty cents to eighty cents per 



PRODUCTION IX THE UNITED STATES 

 Where the dots are most numerous on the 

 map the yield is greatest. 



bushel, according to supply and demand. In 

 the United States fifty-six pounds of rye make 

 a bushel. 



Rye flour is obtained by a milling process 

 similar to that used in the manufacture of 

 wheat flour (see FLOUR). Three products 

 bran, shorts and flour are obtained. The flour 

 is made into the black bread so generally eaten 

 by the people of Northern Europe. It is more 

 compact and a little less nutritious than wheat 

 bread. In the United States wheat and corn 

 flour are mixed with rye flour in making rye 

 bread, which is used to a limited extent. The 



Protein.12.2 



rates.73.9 



COMPOSITION 

 OF RYE 



chief use of rye in the United States is in the 

 manufacture of malt and spirituous liquors, of 

 which rye whisky is a good example. In Hol- 

 land it is employed in the manufacture of Hol- 

 land gin, and in Russia large quantities were 

 formerly consumed in the production of kvass, 

 a national beverage. 



Rye is a good fodder for stock, and when 

 used for this purpose the whole kernel is 

 ground. It makes a good forage crop if fed 



before the heads form. It is sometimes used 

 as a cover crop and for green manuring (see 

 FERTILIZER). The straw is long, smooth and 

 flexible. It is made into hats and mats, and is 

 employed for packing crockery and glassware, 

 in the manufacture of some grades of paper 

 and for stuffing mattresses and horse collars. 

 In European countries where thatched roofs are 

 still common it is extensively employed as a 

 thatch, since it resists decay better than most 

 other straws. 



Rye is subject to a fungous disease called 

 ergot (which see). 



RYE HOUSE PLOT, a scheme devised by a 

 few of the most radical members of the Eng- 

 lish Whig party in 1683, the purpose of which 

 was to waylay and assassinate Charles II on 

 his return from the Newmarket races. The 

 deed was to be perpetrated at Rye House 

 Farm, the country place of one of the con- 

 spirators; from this circumstance the plot ob- 

 tained its name. The house which the king 

 occupied at Newmarket burned, and Charles 

 was thus forced to leave eight days sooner than 

 was expected, which frustrated the plans of the 

 would-be assassins. For supposed complicity 

 in this plot Lord William Russell and Algernon 

 Sidney were beheaded, though the evidence 

 against them was not sufficient to prove their 

 guilt. Another alleged conspirator, the Earl of 

 Essex, committed suicide in the Tower. 



RYERSON, n'erson, EGERTON (1803-1882), a 

 Canadian educator and clergyman, founder of 

 Ontario's public school system and the foremost 

 Methodist of his time. Dr. Ryerson was born at 

 Charlotteville, Ont. He studied for the Meth- 

 odist Episcopal 

 ministry, and at 

 the age of twenty- 

 two began his ca- 

 reer as a minister. 

 After filling sev- 

 eral pastorates, he 

 helped to found 

 in 1829, and be- 

 came the first 

 editor of, the 

 Christian Guard- 

 ian, the official 

 organ of the Ca- 

 nadian Methodist Church. He then began to 

 take an active part in educational affairs, ob- 

 tained a charter in 1836 for Upper Canada 

 Academy (later Victoria University) at Co- 

 bourg, and in 1841 was appointed its first prin- 

 cipal. 



EGERTON RYERSON 



