. The story of a grain of wheat. e removed,and the flour cells are granu-lated. It is estimated that, underordinary conditions, it will re-quire about two square feet ofland to produce enough wheatfor one loaf of bread weigh-ing a pound. Since theamount of wheat used in theaggregate is large, and is in-creasing faster than the popu- Model of Wheat Kernel. , . ° r ». , r r lation, a few political econo-mists have feared that in a half century or so therewill be a wheat famine from exhaustion of the soiland other causes. A careful examination of thefacts do not warrant such a conclusion. There i
. The story of a grain of wheat. e removed,and the flour cells are granu-lated. It is estimated that, underordinary conditions, it will re-quire about two square feet ofland to produce enough wheatfor one loaf of bread weigh-ing a pound. Since theamount of wheat used in theaggregate is large, and is in-creasing faster than the popu- Model of Wheat Kernel. , . ° r ». , r r lation, a few political econo-mists have feared that in a half century or so therewill be a wheat famine from exhaustion of the soiland other causes. A careful examination of thefacts do not warrant such a conclusion. There isno more danger of a wheat famine than there isof a grass famine, to which family wheat wheat-fields in the Canadian northwestare now coming into cultivation and producingwheat in quantity and quality far beyond the mostsanguine anticipations, from a source which onlya few years ago was considered tracts of land in the United States suitablefor wheat-growing are still uncultivated. In ad-. THE STORY OF A GRAIN OF WHEAT 29 dition to these resources, and the possibilities ofArgentina and other wheat-producing countries,there is an enormous area in America formerlywheat-producing and now utilized for other andmore profitable crops, which merely awaits thestimulus of a greater demand and consequenthigher price to revert to wheat production. Whilesuch conditions exist it is impossible to estimatehow long it will be before the limit of the worldswheat production is reached. There is every rea-son to believe that in the future the supply ofwheat will increase, and that it will be more ex-tensively used in the dietary than it has beenduring the past forty-six hundred years of its his-tory. CHAPTER III Early history of wheat—The problem of its birthplace—Region of the Euphrates and its claims—Egyptianwheat—A discredited legend—An American wheatsensation—Biblical references In the preceding chapter it has been said thatthe origin of whea
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