Graminae - The botanical term for the grass family, flowering plants with long, narrow leaves and tubular stems, including pasture grasses, cereals, reed (but not sedges), bamboo and sugarcane.

Granary - 1. A farm building for storing grain and other feeding stuffs ( e.g. Cake Meal) and for processing them (i.e., grinding and mixing) before feeding to livestock. Also a grange.
2. A figurative term for a rich grain-growing area or region.

Grange - 1. A farmhouse with accompanying buildings and stables. Also a country house.
2. A Granary

Grassland - Areas used for grazing stock, consisting mainly of grasses and clovers where cultivated, and also mosses, lichens, heather, etc., where uncultivated or natural.

Grazing land - Any area of pasture, meadow or other grassland available for stock to Graze.

Grease - An inflammation of the skin of a horse’s heels resulting in swelling, itching and the discharge of greasy pus.

Green Bacon - Bacon sold after curing curing with brine but before being smoked.

Green Feed - The term used for the mechanically harvested forage fed to animals while fresh and succulent. They constitute an excellent source of vitamin-A as they are rich in carotene.

Green Freeding - The feeding of a crop to animals in the 'green' or unripe condition.

Green Forages - A group of feedingstuff comprising the grasses and young cereals, some legumes (e.g., Clover, Sainfoin; Lucerne, Vetches, etc.) and certain Brassicas (e.g., Kale, Cabbage, Rape, etc.) green Maize, Beet tops, and Silage, etc. They characteristically have a higher protein content, particularly when very young, than succulent foods such as roots and tubers.

Green Harvesting - The cutting of a crop in the' green' or unripe state.

Green Manure - A crop (e.g., Italian Ryegrass, Mustard, etc.) specifically grown for subsequent ploughing in, in order to provide humus to the soil. Green manure crops are often planted in the autumn after a fallow period when no main rotation crop is to be planted, to prevent accumulated nitrates from being leached out (Leach) during the winter.

Green Manure Trampler - An implement which is used to trample and press the green manure crop in the fields.

Greenstuff - Green vegetables for the table, especially cabbages. Also called greens.

Grey-back - An old breed of geese with a mostly white body and grey wings and upper legs.

Grey Leaf - A deficiency disease of cereals, mainly of oats, but sometimes wheat and barley, due to inadequate manganese in the soil. Characterised by grey streaks on the leaves, causing many young plants to die and resulting in poor grain yield. Also called grey speck.

Greyface - A crossbred sheep derived from a Border Leicester ram and a Blackface ewe, produced mainly in Scotland. Greyface ewes are crossed predominantly with Suffolk rams, producing lambs with a high quality carcase.

Grice - A little big.

Grinding Com - Cereal grain used for grinding in a Mill to produce flour or Meal.

Grip - 1. A drain, small ditch or furrow used to drain surface water off grassland.
2. A narrow opening made in the soil, using a spade, into which young plants or cuttings are placed.
3. A Dunging Channel in a Cow house.

Gripping Machine - A machine, normally drawn by a Crawler Tractor, similar to a large plough, used to cut surface drains or grips in boggy conditions in hill areas or river valleys, and usually fitted with wide tracks to prevent sinking. The machine normally has an arched frame supporting the cutting mechanism, which removes a continuous strip of soil leaving U-shaped furrow.

Grist - Cereal grain which is to be or has been ground in a Mill. Also malt for brewing.

Grit - 1. Small fragments of various substances fed to poultry, viz. (a) soluble grift, such as limestone or oyster shell, provided to balance calcium lost by laying birds in producing egg-shells, and (b) insoluble grit, such as granite or fint, provided to assist the gizzard to grind food.
2. Small woody parts of a pear.

Grits - Coarsely ground Grain, particularly oats.

Groats - Grain, particularly oats, after removal of husks.

Grooming - The cleaning, brushing, combine and general tending of

the coat, tail, legs and feet of certain animals, particularly horses and cattle, especially when kept indoors.

Gross Energy Valu - The energy released as heat by a food when a given weight is completely oxidised, usually in a bomb calorimeter. Also known as energy of combustion.

Ground Chalk - Chalk, Ground Limestone.

Ground Frost - A temperature at ground level of less than 0°Cor 32°F. Most plant tissues are not destroyed until the temperature falls well below the freezing point of water.

Ground-keeper - A potato missed during harvesting, which subse­quently grows up again.

Ground Limestone - Any of the natural forms of limestone ground to produce a powder for use in liming. The powder acts to rectify soil acidity more quickly than limestone applied in lumps.

Ground Nut Cake, Ground Nut Meal - Cake or Meal derived from the tropical ground nut (Arachis hypogea) and available either in the decorticated or undecorticated forms. Used to feed dairy cows and fattening cattle as well as pigs, poultry and sheep.

Ground Rock Phosphate - Rock Phosphate.

Groundwater -. Rain water which has percolated through to underground rock strata from the surface as distinct from draining to streams or rivers as runoff. Such water is the source of well and spring supplies.

Growing-off - A condition of hops in which the bines easily detach themselves from the rootstocks, due to Hop Canker.

Growth Promoter - A substance included in an animal feed (Feeding-stuffs) which has the effect of increasing the efficiency of feed conversion (Food Conversion Ratio) and or leads to improved daily liveweight gains. Examples included antibiotics such as flavomycin, virginiamycin and zinc bacitracin, and mineral copper sulphate.

Growth Ragulator - A chemical applied to a plant, which regulates or alters its rate of growth( either by stimulation or retardation. Often applied to control weeds in crops (e.g., Hormone Weedkillers, Translocated Herbicides) when growth is severely retarded and death usually results. These chemicals act in a similar manner to auxins the natural plant growth regulating substances or hormones.

Grub - A term applied in the general sense to insect larvae such as caterpillars and legless maggots, but sometimes used more specifically for the legged larvae of beetles.

Grub Out, Grup Up - To remove plants from the ground, particularly digging out the roots so that the land is cleaned. Especially applied to Orchards.

Grubber - 1. A hand implement for grubbing out weeds, etc., or for clearing and stirring up the soil, consisting of a long stick with a forked tip behind which is fitted a curled metal pivot.
2. A heavy cultivator.

Guano - A fertilizer rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, derived from the accumulated droppings of certain sea birds, found particularly on islands off the Peruvian coast. (Fish Guano).

Gypsum - (CaSO4 . 2HP). Crystalline hydrated calcium sulphate. Often added to soil to correct saline conditions (e.g., following seawater flooding), the calcium displacing the sodium (Cation Exchange). Superphosphate contains a certain amount of gypsum.