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126. Wheat.

To the people of the United States, wheat
is the most valuable of all grains.

Wheat is chiefly used in making flour.
The little seed or fruit consists of a grain in-
side a husk. Only the inner part of the grain
is ground into fine white flour.

Wheat thrives all over the rich prairies,
and even far north across the border of the
United States. The valleys of the Pacific
slope yield large crops of this useful grain.

A large part of the wheat crop passes
through Chicago. Every year this city ships
many million bushels by steamer and by rail.
The chief ports that handle wheat are New
York, Baltimore and San Francisco. The

 

the world in making flour.
Where are these cities?

It is not known where
wheat was first found, but
it is not a native of America.

This grain is chiefly raised in the cool and
warm belts.

Wheat is often sown for hay, and the stalks
make good straw. ‘This grain stands cold
nights and frost much better than corn
does, and so is raised much farther north.

Find out at home what articles are made
of wheat flour. Have you ever been in a mill
in.which corn or wheat is ground ?

Name the states in which the most wheat.
is raised.