l8o PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY 



RICE 



CHAMBLISS, CHARLES E.: The Culture of Rice in California. Farmers' Bulletin 688, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1915; Prairie Rice Culture in the United States. 

 Farmers' Bulletin 1092, 1920. 



FREEMAN, W. G. and CHANDLER, S. E.: The World's Commercial Products. Boston, 

 Ginn and Co., 1911. 



KNAPP, S. A.: Rice Culture in the United States. Farmers' Bulletin no, 1900; Rice 

 Culture. Farmers' Bulletin 417, 1910. 



WISE, F. B. and BROOMELL, A. W.: The Milling of Rice and Its Mechanical and Chemi- 

 cal Effect upon the Grain. Bulletin 330, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1916. 



BUCKWHEAT 



GARDNER, FRANK D.: Successful Farming. Philadelphia, The John C. Winston 



Company, 1916. 



HUNT, THOMAS F.: The Cereals in America. New York, Orange Judd Company, 1912. 

 LEIGHTY, CLYDE E.: Buckwheat. Farmers' Bulletin 1062, U. S. Department of 



Agriculture, 1919. 

 ROBBINS, WILFRED W.: The Botany of Crop Plants. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's 



Son & Co., 1917. 



LABORATORY WORK 



Suggestions to Teachers. Plants with inflorescences and flowers of oats, wheat, 

 barley, rye and rice should be dried in the sun and then tied in bundles of a hundred, 

 or more. The inflorescences should be wrapped in stiff paper for preservation. Ears of 

 maize should be dried and kept in tin boxes and the tassel with the unopened flowers 

 should be preserved in alcohol. Inflorescences of all the above cereals should be kept 

 in alcohol. Fruits of buckwheat may be preserved in the dry state and whole plants 

 with flowers in alcohol. Suggestions for the conduction of laboratory work with the 

 cereals will be found in HUNT, HARRIS F.: The Cereals in America, 1912, and to that 

 book the teacher is referred. 



LABORATORY EXERCISES 



1 . Describe in detail, following the outline provided by the teacher, each of the 

 cereal plants: corn, oats, wheat, barley, rye, rice and buckwheat. This can be done 

 in any "part of the civilized world, including China and Japan. 



2. Draw and study the caryopses of corn, oats, wheat, barley, rye and rice. 



3. Section the same and apply the iodine test in order to locate the position of the 

 reserve food and the embryo. 



4. Study microscopic sections of wheat kernel in order to locate the aleurone layer. 

 This can be pursued with the other grains, if time permits. 



5. Draw and study the early stages of germination of the above fruits and deter- 

 mine the different parts of the seedlings, as they unfold, or show sequential development. 



6. With such a book for reference, as the "Manual of Corn Judging," by A. D. 

 Shamel, New York, Orange Judd Company (1903), learn to judge the various ears of 

 corn'kept for laboratory work in corn judging. 



