. Field crop production; a text-book for elementary courses in schools and brief courses in colleges. Agriculture. WHEAT 103 service. The stem of the wheat plant in most varieties is hollow, excepting at the node, where it is solid. In some few varieties the stem is partly or entirely filled with pith. The number of pounds of straw required to pro- duce a bushel of grain varies greatly with the variety and with the soil. At the Ohio Station, with 45 varieties, dur- ing a period of 13 years, the weight of straw varied from 92 to 132 pounds per bushel of grain, the average being about 105 pounds
. Field crop production; a text-book for elementary courses in schools and brief courses in colleges. Agriculture. WHEAT 103 service. The stem of the wheat plant in most varieties is hollow, excepting at the node, where it is solid. In some few varieties the stem is partly or entirely filled with pith. The number of pounds of straw required to pro- duce a bushel of grain varies greatly with the variety and with the soil. At the Ohio Station, with 45 varieties, dur- ing a period of 13 years, the weight of straw varied from 92 to 132 pounds per bushel of grain, the average being about 105 pounds of straw per bushel of grain. When manure or fertilizer was applied at this station, there was a greater proportionate increase in the weight of the straw than in the grain. 86. The leaves. —As in the corn plant, the leaves are ar- ranged alternately, one leaf growing from each node of the stem. While the plant dur- ing its early stage of growth has a leafy appearance, after the internodes have become full length, the leaves appear to be few in number. This is due to the fact that they are then arranged on a lengthened stem. The leaves of wheat are short and narrow as compared with those of the corn plant. They vary in different varieties in length, width, smoothness, and prominence of veins. The leaf sheaths of. Fig. 32, — Variation in number of culms per 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 Livingston, George. New York, The Macmillan company
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