WHEAT 



WHEEL 



A Booklet on Wheat 



Use three sheets of paper 9x12 

 inches or larger, and fold once, making 

 twelve pages. 



Cover page Story of Wheat in center ; 

 name of school and pupil's name at 

 bottom. 

 Illustration : Sprays of wheat to form 



border design. 

 Inside cover Blank. 

 Page three Essay. Where Wheat Is 



Grown. 



Illustration : Production map. 

 Page four ESSMV. Th> Kinds of Wheat 



and Their Uses. 

 Illustrations : Drawings of articles 



made from wheat. 

 Page five Essay. Insect Enemies the 



Wheat Grower Must Fight. 

 Illustrations : Sketch of chinch bug, 



Hessian fly and army worm. 

 Page six Essay, Machines Used in 



Reaping and Thrashing. 

 Illustration: Sketch of reaper and 



binder. 

 Page seven Bible quotations about 



wheat. 



Illustration : A sheaf of wheat. 

 Page eight My best recipes for use of 



wheat flour. 



Illustration : Sketch of articles de- 

 scribed. 



Page nine Essa"y, Kinds of Flour. 

 Illustration : Section of wheat grain, 



showing parts. 



Page ten Essay, Food Value of Bread. 

 Illustration : Loaves of white bread 

 and whole wheat bread, showing 

 constituent parts. 

 Iriside cover Blank. 

 Back cover Other grains that may be 

 substituted for wheat. 



the most dreaded of the numerous insects 

 which injure wheat. The wheat midge, another 

 serious pest, is an orange or yellow insect about 

 one-tenth of an inch long. Its eggs are depos- 

 ited in crevices in the heads of wheat, and the 

 larvae suck the juice from the wheat kernels, 

 causing the grain to shrivel. The midge is best 

 fought by deep plowing of infested fields and by 

 burning the chaff and screenings after the crop 

 has been harvested. Other pests include the 

 joint worm and the wheat straw worm, both of 

 which are controlled by burning the stubble 

 during the fall or winter, and various species of 

 plant lice and the army worm. E.B.P. 



ConsuH Ten Eyck's A Practical Discussion of 

 the Raising, Marketing, Handling and Use of the 

 Wheat Crop; Dondlinger's The Book of Wheat; 



Bulletins of the United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture, Nos. 534, 596, 616, 678, 680. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 



these volumes wiU explain references in the 



above discussion and will give additional Informa- 

 tion : 



Army Worm Food 



Bran Gluten 



Chinch Bug Grains 



Di y Farming Hessian Fly 



Flour Starch 



WHEAT 'STONE, SIR CHARLES (1802-1875), 

 an English inventor and physicist, was born at 

 Gloucester. At the age of twenty-one he was 

 in London, engaged in making musical instru- 

 ments, and early made himself familiar with 

 the principles involved in their construction. 

 His scientific papers, Thomson's Annals o] 

 Philosophy, New Experiments on Sound, On 

 Acoustic Figures and Experiments to Meas- 

 ure the Velocity of Electricity, attracted atten- 

 tion, and in 1834 he was made professor of ex- 

 perimental physics in King's College, London. 



Wheatstone's experiments were largely di- 

 rected toward showing the velocity of elec- 

 tricity; he devised an electric telegraph, and 

 with W. F. Cooke he secured a patent for his 

 instrument in 1837. The Morse telegraph was 

 operated before the one of Wheatstone and 

 Cooke was submitted to a practical test, but 

 the instrument of the latter was the one which 

 formed the basis of the British electric tele- 

 graph system. Other inventions by Wheatstone 

 are the stereoscope (which see) and the polar 

 clock. He was among the first to recognize the 

 value of and to apply Ohm's law in electrical 

 measurements. In 1868 he was knighted. 



WHEEL, an instrument of torture, formerly 

 employed in Europe for the. punishment of 

 criminals. The victim was stretched out on a 

 huge cart wheel, with his arms and legs along 

 the spokes or on a frame shaped like a capital 

 X, and his limbs were broken by repeated blows 

 with a heavy iron bar. The body was then 

 bent around a smaller wheel and exposed until 

 death ensued, sometimes not until after twenty- 

 four hours or more of terrible suffering. Occa- 

 sionally some leniency was shown, and the exe- 

 cutioner was allowed to end the victim's agony 

 by striking a hard blow or two on the chest or 

 stomach; in France the victim was often 

 strangled after the second or third blow. The 

 Greeks and Romans made use of this method 

 of punishment, and it was in common use in 

 Europe until the end of the eighteenth century. 

 In fact, it was employed in Germany as re- 

 cently as 1827. 



