. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. UMBELLIFEROUS PLANTS. 159 split peas used in soups and as cattle-food; it is sometimes grown as a fodder crop, the pea- straw, of which the composition is shown in analysis No. 36, serving as a nutritious adjunct in chaff. The lentil, which is the seed of Ervum lens, is imported into Britain from southern Europe and Egypt, and is used by millers in the com- position of meals for cattle-food. " llevalenta," " Ervalenta," and other widely advertised pre- parations co
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. UMBELLIFEROUS PLANTS. 159 split peas used in soups and as cattle-food; it is sometimes grown as a fodder crop, the pea- straw, of which the composition is shown in analysis No. 36, serving as a nutritious adjunct in chaff. The lentil, which is the seed of Ervum lens, is imported into Britain from southern Europe and Egypt, and is used by millers in the com- position of meals for cattle-food. " llevalenta," " Ervalenta," and other widely advertised pre- parations contain lentil meal, generally mixed with the flour of barley or some other grain ; they are sold at many times their real value. A glance at the analyses (Nos. 53, 54', 55) of these legu- minous seeds will show their high value as nutrients. The seeds of the laburnum-tree, an ornamental leguminous plant, are poisonous. The natural order is charac- terised by pi'oducing its flowers in umbels (Fig. 55), and by the leaves being usually much divided; the leaf-stalk at its base sheaths the stem, which is hollow. Harmless weeds belonging to the order are the hedge-parsley, and cow-parsnip; more objectionable are such poisonous plants as the hemlock, fool's parsley, and the water-dropwort. The hemlock, Coniiim macidatum, is at once known by its j^olished stem, covered with brownish-red spots, and by the unpleasant odour of mice emitted by the stem when bruised. It usually grows in hedges and waste jjlaces, attaining a height of from 3 to 4 feet. The fool's parsley, JEtJinm Cynapiam, is another denizen of waste places, and grows from 1 to 2 feet high. It is very poisonous, and is known by its three narrow bracts which grow towards one side at the base of each little umbel and point downwards. The water-dropwort, (Enanthe crocata, contains a dangerous poison; it grows in marshes and on the banks of rivers and ditches, its height vary- ing from 3 to 5 feet. Its flowers are w
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