Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-03-13
agricultural Reaolng.
Plants Used as Food BY Man.

diet. There was day somewhere III inc
past When the peoples of the earth had,
each, their peculiar bread.stuns; /; thus Eu,
ru ,e ial oats Northern Asia, harley aud
wheat; Southern Asia, rice; Africa, mil
Jet: and America, maize or Indian corn.
So II" they had: cach, their peculiar veg
.t;.h.s> Of lighter Importance. But now
un men eut aN things.
We make some extracts from this pa
per. il may interest if not instruct our
r>at:cr;. il, respect to the history Of GER
II Il cereal, with which they arc in every
d:,y intercourse.
aA.i first "l' Oats 1t appears that oats
II =, to he a greater man than he is now
e..rv:n,d. DH. UHGxa tells US:
$ Tie common o,i -leena Saiird,) the
trjtc raivc ::.nd "f which is no longer
k..own, a.,,,i.,ae!l the region along thu.
H.':ni,g may pass rs such. may he lrgili.
.,a:.::v considered ;<;il, E.;;rniraf bread
r9a9. !':ia GrIts :ln'! liz Germans, rs far
a, We clil ascertain, cultivated it lw"
thousand years agn, and it seems to have
lean distributed from Europe into the
temperate and cold regions of the whole
wor!l. l;.wtS known to the Egyptians.
!irbrrws. Greeks. and Romans With
tie Introduction OF, more nutritious and
and better cercaiia. the nat became mrrs
a,ll more restricted 20 poor soils and IL
llp,pitab.y r;.ionS, anS at the present day
it priucipa:iy serves rs food only for Co
lnrSt;c animals ana the poorer class of
s,coo'r. In Scotland. bread is baked from
it evru n"w, Us was formerly tie case in
GvrEai:y.
Bariry aid Gys .:c not much noticed
bv our German Doctor. The former is
supposed TO have emana'ed from The re-
GO: between lhe Euphratcs and Tigris.
willie he latter sprun:; from that scope
o: country from thu Alps to the Black
SEA.
O' W!:ea, 4 good deal is said, and well
mas be; t,i, there is: no food for men that
ranks with it in !nnlerll times. Il is HOW
she most im,,'nrtaEt and widely distribu.
ted of all ;rea,!stltls, and has been cult.
ya,el Il! a more or less perfect state for
$500 wears. 1t w:tS kilnwn 20 Chilia 5000
Years before Christ. ard was early used
by the Egyptians and Grccians. 1t was
brought 10 America by til" Slanards at
the beginning of the 18th century. And
nuw, as DIX. JScrR int;'rnrs US,
Wheat occupies !. broader belt thar
rye, and is cultivated as the principa! crol,
in mildie aud southern France England.
(wliere it constitutes the chief object Of
culture among the ccrcalia), part of
Germany, Hungary, the lands of the
southern Danube, the Crimca, and in the
lands of the Caucasus, as well as Central
Asia, wherever the soil is cultivated /:
along its northern border it is associated
in culture with rye. in the southern with
rice ana maze, (indian corn The latter
is lt;ir!'r c case i'll the North American
States, and in the region of the Mcditcrra-
ncan.. Wheat is even cultivated in the
snalhcra hemisphere, at the Cape, Bucnos
AvreS. and Chill, wherever the climatic
logical conditions will allow it,
Next in rank to wheat among the slrall
grains. stands Ric",-onc of our great
Carolina commoditlcs at present, but
which. it will be seen, only knew this soil
within the latter ages UNcER thus com.
pares i. with its sister, H1eat, and tells
OF its origin. &c:
'Whi!c wheat is richest in gluten, and
therefore the mos; nutricious bread crop,
ric, (Org=a sutira., although serving
for the nuirimcnt Of much greater mum
bers of men, possesses, nevertheless, Il
unch less capacity of producing blood.
Indigenous to Further India and the Isle
OF Sua1;.. it is extended over the whole OF
Southern and Eastern Asia, rs we'll a.;
over Arabia, Persia, and Asia Minor:
thence it has reached on one side to North
A;r:c,, Egypt, and NuLia, and ON the
q her 10 GREECE and lay. "a. d. 1900
Ri,,e MAS aircaly introduced into China
5000 wears kcforc Christ Even in the
time of Strabo. rice was cultivated in
Babylon. Su>ian;l, and Syria. The Ara.
ban$ brought it to Sicily. 1t is only very
recently that it has been taken TO Ameri-
ca. In the African as we'll as in the Amer
lean tropical regions it is, however. less
exclusively cultivated than in Elindostan.
where the people live almost entirely ON
rice alone. Rice occurs in Il great number
OF varieties. such as mountain rice, valley
rice, summer and spring rice, &c. The
different kinds are distinguished not only
according to their taste, but also accor-
ding to their SINE :.
We believe our Carolina and Georgia
rice now occupies high position, ifnot
the highest, as 70 excellence of quality
And it is certain that the two States con-
tribute 4 handsome proportion TO the sup
ply Of mankind.
Bat VIC come now to the grain pccu-
l;arly Anerican,-the great staff Of life
with ali ranks and all animals South, and
for many purposes superior to Queen
IrAcot; we aiiudc to what ace call CoKs.
Hear what the German says of it:
:NEmt rice is to Inc Old World, maize,
ns..t;= or Indian corn is 20 the New. 1t
w;,, cultivated ;llcrc at the time of the
discovery by Europeans. 1t is probably
indigenous to Central America, and
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