WHEAT 



jointed and hollow between the joints. The lower 

 parts of the leaves are wrapped around the stems, while 



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the upper parts are long, narrow, pointed blades. The 

 head or spike at the top of the stem contains many 

 spikelets, each containing one to five seeds. As there 

 are many spikelets on each head and many tillers or 

 stems from each seed, one plant may bear many hundred- 

 fold. 



Farmers raise usually from ten to thirty bushels of 

 wheat per acre, although sometimes as much as seventy 

 bushels per acre is grown on good soils that are well 

 farmed. 



Soil. Wheat does best on light clay and loam 

 soils. The seed is usually planted with a drill in rows 

 a few inches apart. In most states the farmer sows 

 about one to one and a quarter bushels of seed wheat 



