. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools. Agriculture. Small Grains 135 As a general rule, the soft wheats are light and the hard wheats are dark in color. 61. Uses of wheat. — By far the largest part of the wheat grown in the world is used for the manufacture of flour, which is made into bread and paste foods, like macaroni. Certain prepared breakfast foods are made from wheat and a small quantity is fed to live-stock, but usually this latter is of poor. Fig. 47.—Heads of German emmer, spelt, and einkorn. 1, black winter emmer ; 2, white beardless spelt; 3, black winter emmer; 4,
. Effective farming; a text-book for American schools. Agriculture. Small Grains 135 As a general rule, the soft wheats are light and the hard wheats are dark in color. 61. Uses of wheat. — By far the largest part of the wheat grown in the world is used for the manufacture of flour, which is made into bread and paste foods, like macaroni. Certain prepared breakfast foods are made from wheat and a small quantity is fed to live-stock, but usually this latter is of poor. Fig. 47.—Heads of German emmer, spelt, and einkorn. 1, black winter emmer ; 2, white beardless spelt; 3, black winter emmer; 4, black bearded spelt; 5, double einkorn ; 6, spring emmer. quality and not suitable for flour. In the milUng of flour, many by-products result that are employed chiefly as live- stock feeds. The straw is used as roughage feed and bedding for live-stock. 62. Soils for wheat. — Wheat has been grown successfully on most kinds of soil. It is important to have the soil in good tilth. In the case of heavy soils, more work is necessary to bring them into good condition than with loamy soils, but if heavy soils are well tilled they can be made to grow good crops of wheat. Sandy soils for this crop must be well supplied with. 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 Sampson, Harry Oscar, 1879-. New York, Macmillan
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