Rape Cake - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 67266 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 11.00 CRUCIFERAE Brassica juncea | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Rape Cake | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Rape Cake | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Rape CakeUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Wightman Bell E | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1918 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: Containing a high proportion of Indian Mustard Letter 173,1918 : xii p.86 dated April 20th 1918 - Sample of Rape-cake, causing death of cattle, sent for examination by Mr E Wightman Bell, County Agricultural Lab, Spalding; letter dated 13th, April 1918 - An examination of the sample of cake has been made with the result that the seed coats agreeing in character with those of Indian Mustard (B.juncea) and probably belonging to that species, have been found to be present and in fairly large pr, oportion. Information regarding the occurrance of different seeds in so-called rape cake and on the subject of the poisoning of cattle fed with cake is given in the following articles in Die landwirtschaftlichen Versuchs-stationen (Berlin) :- Forster, Ra, pskuchen und deren Verunreinigung, vol 50 pp 449-481; Jorgensen, Entwickelungs-bedingungen ... der aus Cruciferensamen ... gewonnenen fluchtigen Senfole, vol 51, pp 311-333; Jorgensen, Weitere Untersuchungen uber die aus ... Rapskuchen gewonnenen Fluchtig, en Senfole Vol 52, pp 269-290; Sjollema, Entwickelung und schadliche wirkung von Senfol aus Rapskuchen Vol 54 pp. 311-318; also Jorgenson Vol 72 pp 1-14. Signed LAB 19.iv.18 | ||||