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Rye (Secale cereale The glumes)

Secale cereale. The glumes are one-nerved and shorter than the spikelet, the rachis is very tough; not known in RYSWICK a wild state. It is the prevailing grain cultivated in the S. of Sweden and Norway, in Denmark, Holland, the N. of Germany, and part of Siberia. It is cultivated to a small extent in England, and somewhat more extensively in America.

It grows on poor, light soils unsuitable for wheat. The value of rye is about two-thirds that of wheat; its nutritious 64 to 71. When formerly mixed with properties are to those of wheat as about wheat wheat it was called meslin. It is the chief grain from which Holland gin is distilled. When rye is attacked by ergot it is said to be spurred. In 1919 the United States produced 88,478,000 bushels on an area of 6,963,000 acres.