Of the cereal foods, wheat is that most generally useful.

Here were regularly offered cereal-offerings, burnt-offerings, and frankincense.

] BARLEY.This, in the order of cereal grasses, is, in Britain, the next plant to wheat in point of value, and exhibits several species and varieties.

The land is, of course, suited for all cereal crops, too.

Man's earliest farinaceous food was likewise the product of trees; for in his nomadic condition he makes his bread from the acorn and the chestnut: he must become a tiller of the soil, before he can obtain the products of the cereal herbs.

Mr. Robertson Smith had a celebrated theory that cereal sacrifice is a tribute to a god, while sacrifice of a beast or man is an act of communion with the god.

The cause of the migration of these birds from their native northern latitudes is not, probably, the severe cold of those regions, but the deep snows that bury up their cereal stores at a very early period.

Given an abundant crop, low prices, and high freight rates in the great cereal belt, and, be the farmers never so poor, much of the grain will be stored and held against the chance of better conditions.

Gluten exists largely in the cereals wheat, barley, oats, and rye.

Those who find ordinary coffee too stimulating, or otherwise unsuitable, may be glad to know of some of the good cereal coffees now to be had.

He is devoted to the study of BACON, but not averse from the lighter sort of fiction, having a special preference for cheerful stories published in a cereal form.

Rice, on the other hand, contains less proteids than any other cereal grain, and is the least nutritious.