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a more yellowish-green color while grow- 

 ing. It can be grown over the widest 

 latitude of any grain. The awns are 

 barbed and poison persons of a delicate 

 skin. It has two-, four- and six-rowed 

 varieties. 



Buckwheat is a dicotyledonous plant; 

 flowers white, fruit a triangular seed used 

 much for poultry and for buckwheat flotir. 



Flax is grown for both fiber and seed. 

 The fiber comes from the stalks and is 

 made into linens. The seed is used for 

 poultices (flaxseed poultices), and is 

 pressed to obtain linseed oil — ^the oil of 

 paint. 



Indian Corn is taller than the other 

 grains. Flowers monoecious naked ovules 

 enclosed in a husk. Of great value as a 

 food for cattle. Much used as human 

 food, as cornstarch and hominy. There 

 are many varieties. It likes hot weather 

 to grow. 



