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Title: An introduction to agriculture
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Upham, Arthur Aquila, 1853- Schmidt, Gustavus Adolphus, 1880- joint author
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: New York, Chicago, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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for the manu-facture of rye flour which is used in making rye bread.Rye is also used for feeding farm animals and in thisconnection it may take the place of wheat. Some ryeis used in the manufacture of liquors. Rye straw hasa considerable number of commercial uses and sur-passes in value the straw of the other grains. Thereis but one type of rye, but there are spring and wintervarieties, the latter being most commonly grown. 96. The Plant and Cultural Methods.— In a gen-eral way the habits of growth and the cultural methodsof rye are similar to those of wheat, but rye often grows 104 AN INTKODUCTIO:^^ TO AGEICULTUKE a little taller. Our north central states lead in theproduction of rve. Rve is much hardier than the other cereals, andprofitable crops may be produced on soils too poor forthe profitable growing of the other grains. It is alsobest adapted to light soils. Because of these facts, ryeis sometimes called the ^ grain of poverty. It is com- EACH DOT REPRESENTS200.000 BUSHELS
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Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture monly grown as a green manure crop. Rye is oftensown between the corn rows^ and also between the rowsof all other crops, during the latter part of August orearly September. 97. Oats.— Oatmeal or rolled oats when properlycooked is one of the cheapest and best of the cereal WHEAT, BAKLEY, EYE, AXD OATS 105 grains for mans food. Oats, however, find their great-est use as a feed for horses. Ground or crushed oatsmake a splendid grain for all farm animals. Oats areeasily distinguished from the other grains because theirgrain is borne not in a compact head, but is looselyspread out. Each year we harvest about 1,000,000,000bushels of oats and the average yield is about 30 bushelsper acre. 98. Types of Oats.— There are two typesof oats, one calledspreading oats, and theother side oats. Theside oats differ fromthe spreading, in thatall the branches hangon one side of the mainstem. There are bothwinter and spring va-rieties, as in wheat.The winter v

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