Corn is sometimes called 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.
| ANOTHER GRAIN WHICH WE FIND ON ALMOST EVERY TABLE. |
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 will.
Do you know what people live on rice without any meat at all? Ask your teacher to tell you how rice is raised in China and Japan.
You ought to find something to tell your teacher and classmates about the grains.
Perhaps you would enjoy drawing some of the grains you have seen.
Choose one of the grains, and write what you have Learned about it from conversation and observation.
We plow the fields, and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By God's almighty hand.
He sends the snow in winter,
The warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine,
And soft refreshing rain.