THE WHEAT INDUSTRY 



People generally know something about the 

 wheat industry. Students in or near the country 

 see such processes as plowing, seeding, harvesting, 

 and threshing, and may be able to describe them. 

 These persons, however, may not have a knowl- 

 edge of how the grain is handled at the big markets 



FIG. i. The wheat field in its country setting. 



nor how it is manufactured into flour at the mills. 

 Those of us who live in the city may have seen 

 large shipments of wheat at the elevators and mills. 

 Some of us may have visited mills where wheat 

 is made into flour, or bakeries where flour is made 

 into bread, yet we may know very little of how 

 wheat is grown. The agricultural processes are 

 no better understood by the city child than are 



