QUESTIONS 223 



5. Variation in Yields. In a field of growing grain just before harvesting, 

 or in grain shocks after harvesting, select the stalks which show the largest 

 proportion of grain. What improvement, if any, could be made by planting 

 grain from such heads instead of the others? 



QUESTIONS 



1. In what ways are the small grains alike in their culture? 



2. Discuss the adaptation of different soils to wheat growing. 



3. What are the chief kinds of wheat grown for market? 



4. Give the details for growing the crop. 



5. Compare the straw of the four cereal grains as to feed value. 



6. Describe the growing of oats. 



7. Give the different types of barley. 



8. Why are there fewer varieties of rye than of the other cereals? 



9. Compare the growing of rice by the upland and the lowland methods. 

 10. Describe the culture of buckwheat. 



References. United States Farmers' Bulletins: 139, Emmer: A Grain for 

 Semiarid Regions; 304, Growing and Curing Hops; 322, Milo as a Dry-land 

 Crop; 395, Sixty Day and Kherson Oats; 399, Irrigation of Grain; 417, Rice 

 Culture; 420, Oats: Distribution and Uses; 424, Oats: Growing the Crop; 

 427, Barley Culture in the Southern States; 436, Winter Oats for the South; 

 443, Barley: Growing the Crop; 448, Better Grain-sorghum Crops; 466, 

 Winter Emmer; 518, Winter Barley; 534, Durum Wheat; 596, The Culture 

 of Winter Wheat in Eastern Half of the U. S.; 616, Winter-wheat Varieties 

 for the Eastern U. S.; 678, Growing Hard Spring Wheat; 680, Varieties of 

 Hard Spring Wheat; 704, Grain Farming in Corn Belt, with livestock as side 

 Line. 



N. J. Exp. Sta. Circ. 51, Diseases of Grains and Forage Crops. The Cereals 

 in America, Hunt, Orange Judd Co., N. Y. Examining and Grading Grains, 

 Lyon and Montgomery, Ginn & Co., Boston. The Small Grains, Carleton, 

 Macmillan, N. Y. Field Crops, Wilson and Warburton, Webb Pub. Co., St. 

 Paul. Southern Field Crops, Duggar, Macmillan, N. Y. 



