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QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 



1. Upon an outline map of the United States shade the chief wheat- 

 growing, oat-growing, barley-growing, rye-growing, and rice-growing re- 

 gions, and indicate which kinds of wheat are most grown in the different 

 wheat regions. 



2. How should the seed bed be prepared for wheat? 



3. Suppose each one of five farmers has a forty-acre field of wheat 

 and that each one of the five secures a yield in proportion to a different 

 one of the tests shown in Fig. 76. At the present price of wheat in 

 your locality, calculate (i) what each man would receive from his forty 

 acres of wheat ; (2) how much more or less this is than the average 

 amount received by the five; (3) how much less this is than the amount 

 received by the one receiving most. 



4. How may wheat be used most profitably in rotation with other 

 crops ? 



5. What factors should be taken into account in selecting good seed 

 wheat ? 



6. Discuss the sowing of wheat as to manner ; time ; amount of seed ; 

 depth to plant the seed. 



7. What relation is there between the amount of grain a man may 

 now grow and the changes which have taken place in the past century 

 in the manner of harvesting wheat? 



8. Compare oats and wheat in productivity ; in yield ; in commercial 

 value ; in feeding value. 



9. Discuss briefly (i) the planting, (2) the preparation of the seed bed, 

 and (3) the sowing and harvesting of oats. 



10. What is the relative importance of barley as a cereal crop? 



11. Compare the sowing and harvesting of barley with the sowing 

 and harvesting of oats. 



12. Compare the production and importance of rye in this country with 

 the production and importance of wheat. 



13. What are the principal uses to which rye is put in this country? 

 in Europe? 



14. How is rice planted ? cultivated? harvested? 



15. How is rice grown in the oriental countries? 



16. What is the quantity and value of the world's production of rice? 

 What peoples depend chiefly upon rice for their food ? 



