Note E — Sacred Philosophy.
Reading edition
The relative proportions of starch and gluten in rice, wheat, and other seeds, not only confirm the views respecting design, in determining their geographical distribution, but merit notice, as influencing their nutritive qualities, and fitness or unfitness as food in different countries.
Starch. Gluten.
Wheat, according to Proust 74.5 12.5
—— — Vogel 68.0 24.0
Winter wheat — Davy 77.0 19.0
Spring wheat 70.0 24.0
Spelt — Vogel 74.0 22.0
Barley — Davy 79.0 6.0
Rye — Do. 61.0 5.0
Oats — Do. 59.0 6.0
Rice Carolina — Vogel 85.07 3.60
Maize — Bizio 80.92 0.
Tartarian buckwheat 52.29 10.47
Not only do the relative proportions of starch and gluten vary in the same seed when grown in different countries, but even when grown in the same country, according to the kind of manure put on the soil, a point of great importance to agriculturists, when known and attended to.