WEST.
corn caled? On
what do the grains of corn grow?
What use is made of the green stalks and leaves? What
use is made of the ripe grain? For what are corn-husks
largely used?
Sweet corn, if boiled when green, is an excelent
vegetable. It is preserved by canning.
A large cornfield, with its tal, straight stalks, covered
SEVERAL KINDS O F GRAIN.
with green shining leaves and crowned by flowers, is a
very pleasant sight.
Corn is sometimes caled the national emblem. What does emblem mean?
What use is made of oats; barley, rye, and buckwheat? Some of these grains are useful in
two or three ways.
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There is another grain which we find on almost every
table. It is rice. The rice plant, when growing,
resembles wheat; but, unlike wheat, it needs a great
deal of moisture. So the rice-grower sows it in fields
which he can flood or drain at wil.
Do you know what people live on rice without any
meat at al? Ask your teacher to tel you how rice is
raised in China and Japan.