. Elementary agriculture. Agriculture. WHEAT 127 before Christ lived, and the Chinese said that it was given to them direct from heaven. Wheat in America. Wheat was the first grain brought to our country by the Jamestown colony in 1607. These pioneers cut down forest trees to build a fort, and in the cleared places they sowed. Fi(,. (i'j. Hit ifdi) hook, an ancitnt tool for reaping r wheat. The first crops were very poor, but they wanted white bread, so they kept planting a little more each year. The crops were cut with the reap hook, or sickle, which is merely a knife with a curved blade (Fig
. Elementary agriculture. Agriculture. WHEAT 127 before Christ lived, and the Chinese said that it was given to them direct from heaven. Wheat in America. Wheat was the first grain brought to our country by the Jamestown colony in 1607. These pioneers cut down forest trees to build a fort, and in the cleared places they sowed. Fi(,. (i'j. Hit ifdi) hook, an ancitnt tool for reaping r wheat. The first crops were very poor, but they wanted white bread, so they kept planting a little more each year. The crops were cut with the reap hook, or sickle, which is merely a knife with a curved blade (Fig. 69). It was threshed by being trod upon by horses and oxen. The World's Crop. Our country does not produce so large a part of the world's wheat crop as it does of the corn. Europe raises twice as much wheat as does North America. European countries get twice. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nida, William Lewis. [from old catalog]. Chicago, A. Flanagan company
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