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with a plentiful stock of assorted grass seeds, on a rich and 

 well-prepared surface, they will soon place themselves in a 

 productive state. 



CHAPTER VII. 



GRAIN AND ITS CULTIVATION. 



WHEAT (Triticran). 



FIG. 32. FIG. 33. FIG. 34. 



SPRING BALD WHEAT. WINTER BALD WHEAT WINTER BEARDED WHEAT. 



THIS is one of the most important and most generally 

 cultivated of the cereal grains (or grasses as they are bo- 

 tanically termed), though both rice and maize or Indian 

 corn, contribute to the support of a larger population. It is 

 found in every latitude, excepting those which approach too 

 nearly to the poles or equator ; but it can be profitably raised, 



