. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 36 THE BOOK OF THE FARM WINTER. and in Gaul under the name of cervisia. Almont every specicB of com has been asod in the manufaoture of beer. In Europe it ia usually made from hnrlry, in India from rice, in the interior of Africa, according to Park, from the seeds of the Uolnix apicnhif. But whatever erain is employed, the process is nearly the same, and it is usual in the first place to convert it into malt" " t (1518.) Oatit.—Oats ar
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 36 THE BOOK OF THE FARM WINTER. and in Gaul under the name of cervisia. Almont every specicB of com has been asod in the manufaoture of beer. In Europe it ia usually made from hnrlry, in India from rice, in the interior of Africa, according to Park, from the seeds of the Uolnix apicnhif. But whatever erain is employed, the process is nearly the same, and it is usual in the first place to convert it into malt" " t (1518.) Oatit.—Oats are cultivated on a large extent of ground in Scotland, and it is believed that no country produces greater crojis of them or of finer quality. The plant belongs to the natu- ral order of fSraviiiuir. and it occupies the 3d class Triandria, 2d order Dtgynia, genus Arena, of the Linniean system. Its ordinary botanical name is Arena na/iva, or cultivated oat The term oat is of obscure origin. Paxton conjectures it to have l>een derived from the Celtic eftin, to eat4 There are a great number of varieties of this grain cultivated in this country. Mr. Lav^-son de- scribes 37 ; 11 and .'i4 are ileposited in the Highland and Agricultural Society's Museum.$ The natu- ral claHsification of this plant by the ear is obvious. One kind has its panicles spreading and equal on all sides, and tapering toward the top of the spike in a conical form. The other has its panicles shortened, nearly of equal length, and all on the same side of the rachis. Fig. 306 represents both Fig. THE TARTARIAN OAT. THE POTATO OAT. the kinds, a showing the first and f> the second, where they both appear somewhat confined or squeezed toward the racliis, tlie object being to exhibit the grain in the straw as taken from the stack, rather than wiien pulled green from the field, a is the prolific potato oat, which is beanlless, commonly cultivated in Scotland for the sake of its meal, and b is the white Tar
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