ilhiaim. 



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last are of little use for cattle and are sold to owners of asses and mules, when 

 possible. The leaves are first stripped off by hand, then the stalks and pods 

 arc threshed, next the stalks are picked out, and then the remainder is 

 winnowed and the chaff separated from the grain. As regards their value 

 as fodder, moth stands first, mash second, and mting last (Purser, quoted on 

 pages 186-87 of Jullundur Gazetteer). Mash is a good fodder for camels." 



39. Phaseolus mungo : natural order, Legnminoste. For botanical des- 



Mung, synonym mungli, an inferior variety in La- Cl'lption SCO Fuller and Dutllie's Food 



and Garden Crops, part I, page 37, and 

 plate IX. 

 To quote from the same hook : 



" Mung is one of four pulses which resemble one another very closely in appearance 

 and habit of growth, the other three being- urd or mas//, loUa, and moth. Mung is the most 

 valuable of the four, and as a rule its consumption is confined to the better class of natives. 

 It can be easily distinguished from either motJi or lolia, but its resemblance to urd is so 

 close that both are considered by some botanists varieties of the same species. The most 

 popular distinction between the two plants in the field lies in mung having dark green and 

 urd yellowish green leaves, but the principal difference is in the shape of the grain in that of 

 urd being- much larger and longer than that of mdnfl. . . . There are three well marked varie- 

 ties of mung having- respectively green, yellow, and black seeds. The green seeded is the 

 typical and commonest variety, that with yellow seed, known as sona or golden mung, being 

 named phaseolus aureus, and that with black seeds phaseolm max" 



According to Purser the variety with black seeds is called lurang or miinga, 

 and the green and yellow seeded varieties itmng'i. 



The chemical composition of the unhusked grain is 



Green seeded. 



Per cent. 

 Water 1O8 



Albuminoids 



S-tarch 



Oil 



Fibre 



Ash 



22-2 



54-1 



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5-8 



4-4, 



Yellow seeded. 

 Per cent. 



11-4 



23-8 



54-8 



2-0 



4-2 

 3-8 



It is usually sown with the millets, jow&r and bdjra, chiefly the former, 

 with maize or cotton, or mixed with other pulses. It is not suited to the light 

 sandy soil in which moth flourishes. It is grown in saildb lands, but not to 

 the same extent as mash. Hung is the pulse of the Pothwar tract in the 

 Rawalpindi and Jhelum districts. In Rawalpindi it is as a rule sown mixed 

 with bdjra. Heavy rain in September, when it is in flower, is exceedingly 

 harmful, and both mash and mung " suffer from the attacks of grasshoppers 

 (tidda) when young and later on caterpillars attack the pods and grains" 

 (Steedman, Settlement Report of Jhang, page 93). 



The broken straw and stalks are good fodder for cattle, but, as already 

 noticed, not so good as the bhusa of mash and moth. 



40. Phaseolus aconitifolius : natural order, Lgnminos<e. -For botanical 



description see Food and Garden 



Moth, synonym notti. CropS) ^ ^ page 



The chemical composition of the grain is 



Per cent. 

 11-2 

 23-8 

 56-6 



c 



4-2 



3-6 including- 0-S 

 of phosphoric 

 acid.' 



Accordin^ to Purser (Montgomery Settlement Report, page 110) there 

 are three^ kinds" lagga, jhijrtt, and gardra. The first grows up (straight ; the 



Water 



Albuminoids 



Starch 



Fat 



Fibre 



Ash 



