This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... exports of cows, sheep, horses, and mules will take place. The country will always be noted for its good cereals. Wheat grows to perfection and yields a fine hard grain of large size; there are many sorts cultivated, red, yellow, and the kind known as white. The best and the one that gives the heaviest crop has eight ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... exports of cows, sheep, horses, and mules will take place. The country will always be noted for its good cereals. Wheat grows to perfection and yields a fine hard grain of large size; there are many sorts cultivated, red, yellow, and the kind known as white. The best and the one that gives the heaviest crop has eight rows of grain on each ear, and is very like what is known as mummy wheat. I have seen fields of this corn growing near the towns that no doubt have received a plentiful supply of manure, quite equal to anything that we can produce in England. Barley is by far the largest crop of the country, and it is of most excellent quality wherever care is taken in its cultivation. The majority of it is grown on the bleak, bare uplands, and is nothing like so good in quality as that grown in the more sheltered valleys; there are many varieties of this grain, and several kinds with eight rows of ears the same as the wheat; the cereals do not grow to any great height, and are short and stout in the straw. On the coins of the ancient dynasty of Axum an ear of grain is placed on each side of the head of the king or ruler of the country, and this no doubt represents the eight lined barley of Abyssinia. There is a black barley and also a little black wheat found, which I do not remember to have seen in.any other country; the grains of both are excellent and very plump. Oats are not grown, but a few plants of them are found growing amongst the wheat and barley. The natives use wheat meal and barley meal, but curiously enough not oat meal. I always take a large stock of the latter with me when travelling, also pearl barley, and all the natives who have tasted them like both very much and always inquire what sort of grain they come from; and when I point to the des...
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