. The story of a grain of wheat. , andsubdivided into varieties according to the textureand colour of the kernel, and colour and quality ofthe straw, and other characteristics. Winter-wheatis sown in the autumn and harvested in the earlysummer; spring-wheat is planted in the springand harvested late in the summer and early au-tumn. It is needless to enumerate the climaticcauses which work to the disadvantage of thesetwo great rivals in the wheat kingdom ; drought,winter-killing, early frosts, and wet harvests—allhave an important influence over the crop States and Territori
. The story of a grain of wheat. , andsubdivided into varieties according to the textureand colour of the kernel, and colour and quality ofthe straw, and other characteristics. Winter-wheatis sown in the autumn and harvested in the earlysummer; spring-wheat is planted in the springand harvested late in the summer and early au-tumn. It is needless to enumerate the climaticcauses which work to the disadvantage of thesetwo great rivals in the wheat kingdom ; drought,winter-killing, early frosts, and wet harvests—allhave an important influence over the crop States and Territories raise winter-wheat; nineteen produce spring-wheat, some Statesraise both. The leading crop-producers in thewinter-wheat section are Kansas, California, Ohio,Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Okla-homa, Oregon, Michigan, Maryland, and Tennes-see. Of the spring-wheat list, Minnesota, Northand South Dakota, Nebraska, Washington, Wis-consin, and Iowa are the most important. Wheat was first grown on the Pacific coast by. 102 THE STORY OF A GRAIN OF WHEAT the mission fathers, and a crude mill was built in1796. In 1800 a good crop was harvested. Sixyears later the first export shipment was made,and this went to Siberia. In 1847 Oregon raised180,000 bushels. From 1847 to 1852 the gold-fever raged, agriculture was neglected, and farmsdeserted; but after this excitement had somewhatspent itself, men found money in raising wheat,which was at that time almost as valuable asgold. Californias crop in 1852 was 272,000 bush-els, and seed wheat sold at 12 cents a pound. In1854 the crop had increased to two million bush-els. This was the beginning of mill-building onthe coast. In 1856 Oregon was a shipper of wheatto California. In the early 50s an export flourtrade was begun with China, Mexico, CentralAmerica, the Pacific islands, and Great 1867 the exports of coast wheat to Europegrew important. Oregon, and later Washington,began to rival California in the Oriental trad
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