xxxii, 699 pp. 6 pages of publisher ads follow text. Black-and-white illustrations and plates. CONTENTS: Part I. Cereal Plants: Form and Structure; Growth and Nutrition; Wheat; Oats; Barley; Rye; Gereal Improvement--Introductions; Cereal Improvement--Selection; Cereal Improvement--Hybridization; Part II. Cereal Environment: Soil Relations; Climatic Relations; Cereal Adaptation and Association; Part III. Cereal Crops: Cereal Cultivation--Eastern Area; Cereal Cultivation--Great Plains; Cereal Cultivation--Western Area; Cereals Under Irrigation; Cereal Pests--Weeds; Cereal Pests--Insects; Cereal Pests--Parasitic Fungi; Uses of Cereals; Cereals in Commerce; Part IV. Buckwheat and Rice: Buckwheat; Rice; Bibliography; Index.
