This is the first of the three volumes of a comprehensive work in the English language comparable with, yet differing from, the voluminous works in German and French, giving the results on the composition and macroscopic and microscopic structure of a great variety of products scattered through numerous journals and publications. The products described, chiefly natural or obtained by mechanical separation such as milling or pressing, or operations involving simple chemical changes, cover a broad geographic range—oriental and occidental, temperate and tropical. The products are classified according to economic use. This volume includes a short introduction explanatory of general technical terms, plan of the volumes and information to aid in the interpretation of data; part I treats of the true cereals, starch seeds and weed seeds; part II, of oil seeds, oil nuts and weed seeds free of starch; part III, of plants grown for green forage or hay and
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A 1932 study studied this question.