San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
THE WORLDS WHEAT.

wheat.
Russia raises 1s6,OO0,OO0 bushels of
wheat.
The wheat crop of India is 235,0O0,-
600 bushels.
France raises about 81 100000
bushels of wheat.
Wheat threshing costs little in Flor
ida, ~ cents per acre.
The wheat product of Hungary is
100000 bushels.
Wheat land in New York commands
S4.56 per acre for rent.
Wheat seeds retain their vitality
from three to ten years.
The wheat fields of South Australia
yield 7.6 bushels per acre.
The cost of harvesting wheat in
Connecticut is $3.50 per acre.
In North Dakota wheat land is said
TO rent at $1.63 per acre.
The flour from wheat constitutes
about so per cent of the grain.
+ Great Britain produces 100000
bushels, all consumed at home.
There are in this country 100000
acres annually sown in wheat.
The average wheat crop in England
is thirty-six bushels per acre.
In Massachusetts farming land for
wheat is rented at $4.0S per acre.
The wheat moth is an insect of the
same family as the clothes moth.
Wheat raising in Massachusetts is
a luxury, costing $23.S2 per acre.
The labor of preparing an acre of
wheat land in North Dakota is S1.69.
The wheat moth lays one egg, and
but one in a single grain of wheat.
In the wheat belt of India the aver
age production,per acre is 9.3 bush
els.
The rent of wheat land in South
Carolina is estimated at $2.46 an acre.
The average yield of wheat in New
South Wales is fifteen bushels to the
acre.
The name wheat occurs more than
100 times in the Old and New Tesla
ments.
Graham -four, when properly made,
consists of the whole wheat ground
together.
Wheat land in Illinois is estimated
by the department of agriculture to
rent at $3.6S per acre and in Indiana
at 1856.
Manitoba, the great wheat farm of
British America, raises 1917 bushels
to the acre.
Couch grass, a very Objectionable
plant in wheat fields, is itself of the
wheat family.
New Zealand is more productive
than New South Wales, yielding 26.5
bushels per acre.
The most troublesome weeds in a
wheat field in this country are the
cookie and the chess.
Smut may be killed by wetting the
grains of seed wheat in a solution of
sulphate of copper.
The consumption, per head, of
wheat in this country was, last year,
about 3.41 bushels.
In Maine an acre of wheat costs
the farmer $21 before the wheat is
placed on the market.
Wheat will not grow in a country
the mean annual temperature of
which is below 81 degrees.
The department of agriculture esti-
mates that the rent of wheat land in
Missouri is $2.61 per acre.
The department of agriculture esti-
mates that embarrassing in New
Hampshire costs $22.97 per acre.
Rust and smut are minute vege-
table forms which often do immense
damage to the wheat crop.
According to the statistics of the
department of agriculture wheat land
in Kansas rents at 500 per acre.
In New York a farmer must pay
out S19.52 an acre for his wheat be-
fore he can send it to the elevator.
The insects most troublesome to
wheat are the Hessian fly, the wee
vii, the wheat fly and the wheat
moth.
Spelt, a very peculiar variety of
wheat, is a favorite among the farm
ers in many parts of Southern Eu-
rope.
The export prices of wheat since
1866 have varied from S1.27 in that
year to an average price of SIC. in
1894.
The cost of threshing wheat is
greatest in Connecticut, being $2.72
per acre; Massachusetts comes next
with S2.63.
The wheat fly is one-tenth of an
inch long, having a red body, white
wings and black eyes.
The cost of preparing an acre of
wheat land for sowing is said to be
greatest in Connecticut. amounting to