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every village, and use the oil for cooking. A plant 

 of similar habit, the earth-pea (Voandzeia subler- 

 ranea), is also cultivated. 



Of other leguminous foods, beans are the most 

 important, and are grown chiefly by natives. 

 They include a number of varieties of the common 

 kidney bean, Phaseolus vulgaris (Fcijao), the 

 small kidney bean, P. lunatus. The common bean, 

 (Vicia Faba). and pea, Pis-urn saiiviim, are rarely 

 cultivated; but the chick pea, Cic.er arietinum, is 

 mainly grown in the south. The Vignn- Catjang, 

 cow pea or catyang (Macundi), La blab (Dolichos 

 J.ablab], and Indian Dhal (Cajanus indicus) are 

 all cultivated in small quantities. Some of the 

 bean-fields have yielded 40 to 50 bushels to the 

 acre. 



Of tubers, potatoes yield an average of 200 

 bushels an acre, and sweet potatoes up to nearly 

 double this amount, in good land. 



Most of the cereals do well in Angola, especially 

 in the plateaux. Maize or Indian corn is the 

 most important economic product in the colony 

 at present ; 60,000 tons were raised in 1920, and 

 sold at from 8 to 10 a ton at the ports. There 

 are two varieties, the white (Guinbundo), and the 

 yellow and early (Cateta). They are sown during 

 the rainy season on the hillsides, and in the dry 

 season at the bottoms of the valleys near streams. 

 The average yield per acre is 22 to 27 bushels. 



Millet. The variety grown in Angola is the 

 spiked or bulrush millet (Pennisetum ty-phoidenm), 

 which grows to 5 or 6 feet. It bears cylindrical 

 spikes of grain, 12 inches long. 



