. Yearbook of agriculture . ^^ ^~~L ^ T ?—>J \. M til^! \ \j ^& V) STA-rc ACSES II STATE HOLES Wul>. c«u . ,400 ,; UlAh .492,400 , Kaoi .277JOO i Oll»». 134,80087,,600 114,700 1(19J0« ^ u S . 3, rf Fig. 45.—Common wliite wheat is grown chiffly in the Far West but also inthe Great Lakes .section. , California, Oregon, and Idaho leadin its production in the West: New York and Michigan in the East. ance, Dicklow, and Daw-son (Golden Chaff).Common AVhite wheat isused in making pastryflours and breakfast foodsand to some
. Yearbook of agriculture . ^^ ^~~L ^ T ?—>J \. M til^! \ \j ^& V) STA-rc ACSES II STATE HOLES Wul>. c«u . ,400 ,; UlAh .492,400 , Kaoi .277JOO i Oll»». 134,80087,,600 114,700 1(19J0« ^ u S . 3, rf Fig. 45.—Common wliite wheat is grown chiffly in the Far West but also inthe Great Lakes .section. , California, Oregon, and Idaho leadin its production in the West: New York and Michigan in the East. ance, Dicklow, and Daw-son (Golden Chaff).Common AVhite wheat isused in making pastryflours and breakfast foodsand to some extent inIjread-making flours. White Club wheat isgrown only in the west-ern part of this country(Fig. 46). In some sec-tions in this region it out-yields all other more than 1million acres of WhiteClub wheat are grownannually, it comprises lessthan 2 per cent of thetotal wheat Club wheat is used in making starchy flours for pastryor is exported to South America and the Fig. 46.—White Club wheat is grownonly in the West, chiefly in Wash-ington, Oregon, California, and Idaho. ^Sheat Piofluctiori and of the Wheat Crops. 127 The wheat crop varies in quality from year to year, as aresult of climatic and other conditions during the growingseason, and especially in the harvest period. Each year theDepartment of Agriculture estimates the average quality ofthe crop from reports received from many farmers, millers,and elevator operators. These estimates for the 22 years,1900 to 1921. are given in Figure 47. They may be con-sidered as a general index for each year of all the condi-tions that have affected the crop while it was on the farm WHEAT ESTIMATED AVERAGE QUALITY UNITED YEAR 1900 1905 1910 1915 1920 PERCENT 1 1 OF NORMAL 1 95 — I i 1 ! E / \ v^ . ^ir \ ... •J^ \\ ^O \ V- ?? ft \ 1 85 -1 / \N iI ?~ — -*• y \ v^ \\ W/ % v / \ i \ / \ 1 I ! w 80 - \ i ! \l \ ._. \ i \ \ ii W1 _. ._ SPRING WH
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