. Agriculture for beginners. s of the United StatesEach dot represents one hundred thousand bushels in the country annually. This means that the average familyof five would eat twenty-seven and one-half bushels of wheatin a year instead of one quarter of one bushel. There are two classes of wheat, the hard and the of the light bread is made from hard wheat. The softwheats do not make the best light bread, but are good formaking biscuits, crackers, cakes, cookies, crusts, puddings,pies, and all other pastries. WHEAT Wheats are further divided into spring and winter varieties,according
. Agriculture for beginners. s of the United StatesEach dot represents one hundred thousand bushels in the country annually. This means that the average familyof five would eat twenty-seven and one-half bushels of wheatin a year instead of one quarter of one bushel. There are two classes of wheat, the hard and the of the light bread is made from hard wheat. The softwheats do not make the best light bread, but are good formaking biscuits, crackers, cakes, cookies, crusts, puddings,pies, and all other pastries. WHEAT Wheats are further divided into spring and winter varieties,according to the time at which they are sown and wheat is sown in the fall, about October, lives throughthe winter, and ripens the following spring, about the latterpart of June or very early in July, when it is wheat is grown almost exclusively south of Chicago(see map, page 4). Some of the winter wheat is hard and some is soft, but moreis soft than hard. Only a few climates in the United States are. P^ 4. (_(«\\ IKAS FDR CrKKKX MaXIKE The cowpeas were planted in wheat stubble after harvest without plowing adapted to the growing of hard winter wheat. Kansas is theleading hard winter-wheat state. The seed of this wheat, whengrown in Missouri or Iowa, will soon become soft; if broughtback to Kansas, it would be hard again in a few Wheat Yield is Low. We do not grow so much wheatto the acre in the United States as we should. Our averagecrop is about 14I bushels per acre. Great Britain produces 6 AGRICULTURE FOR BEGINNERS an average of about 31 bushels per acre, Germany about 30,and France about 29. One man in Kansas is reported to have produced 65bushels per acre on a 50-acre field. He had taken extra goodcare of his ground and sowed pure-bred seed, which he hadobtained from the Agricultural College. The main reason that our wheat yield is lower than inEuropean countries is because we do not farm so reas
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