WHEAT 287 



or less per pound than corn, it will pay to use wheat for 

 feeding farm animals. As a food for dairy animals, 

 ground wheat is fully equal to either corn or a mixture 

 of corn and barley, and when fed to fattening steers, 

 ground wheat produces about the same results as ground 

 corn. 



390. Wheat as Human Food. Wheat is used as human 

 food more extensively than any other cereal. This is 

 due largely to its being produced over wider ranges of 

 latitude and its containing proteids specially adapted to 

 bread-making. With the exception of rye, wheat is the 

 only grain which contains gliadin, the proteid which 

 forms the dough and with the gas causes expan- 

 sion of the mass during the process of bread- making. 



COMPOSITION OF WHEAT 



(Mainly from Jenkins & Winton, Bull. II, U. S. Dept. Agr., Office 

 of Bxpt. Sta. ) 



1 Minn, analyses. 



2 Average of thirteen northern grown samples. 



3 Spring wheat grown under similar conditions as durum. 



