Water, 5.67 Ash, 4.10 Volatile Oil, 4.04 Resin, 27.50 Undetermined, 41.17 Crude Fiber, 8.93 Albuminoids, 4.55 Nitrogen, .73 The city of Macassar, Celebes, exported during the first nine months of the year 1905, $4,520.61 worth of mace; and Padang, Sumatra, exported $1,617.17 during the same time. The city of Singapore exported $22,710.12 worth during the year 1904. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: MUSTARD 1 Flowering stem with leaves 2 Flower 3 Pod 4 Yellow seed 5 Black seed] CHAPTER XIV MUSTARD You are an appetizer prime, And a friend in time of pain. What did they do without you, pray, Before Old Lady Clements’ time? FRENCH, _Moutarde_; German, _Senf_; Portuguese, _Mustarda_; Spanish, _Maszaza_. The mustard of commerce is the seed, whole or powdered, of the several species of the genus brassica (or sinapis) of the mustard family. They are (cruciferous) plants which grow wild, or cinnamon charlock, and are cultivated under various conditions. Mustard dates back through a number of centuries, and the mustard tree, spoken of in Luke XIII, 19, which attains a height of ten or even fifteen feet in Palestine, was probably the true mustard, brassica (sinapis) nigra, according to Ragle and others. The tree meant is Salvadora Persica, a small tree bearing minute berries with pungent seeds which bear the name in Arabic of mustard. Hippocrates used it in medicine under the name of vanuit. In the time of Queen Elizabeth, the Dutch were employed to throw out the earth from the eighty-foot dyke to drain the farms of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, which were covered with water and had been the habitation of wild fowls. This dirt was found to contain small brown seeds which, on being exposed to the sun and air, sprouted and grew into plants, producing a yellow blossom which proved to be mustard.