Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-05-20

thorities say, wheat was a wild grass,
and the theory has been advanced
that IL is descendant of wild en-
mer," traces of which are found even
today among the rocks of upper Cali
lee, in the vicinity of Mount Hermon.
The large fine grains which now
go to make up our daily bread are
the result of ages of cultivation and
the experiments of innumerable Bur-
banks, men who made II their work
to improve upon the work of Nature.
Enough of these grains were gathered
from the wheat fields of the United
States In 1920 to make something like
750,000000 bushels.
The average mind cannot conceive
of such an enormous quantity OF grain
measured In this way. But an Illus
tration may make It clearer. These
seven hundred million bushels would
fill enough freight cars TO make one
continuous train from New York to
San Francisco and back again, with
few hundred miles left over.
The staff Of Life.
Bread has rightly been called the
stnff Of life, the staff upon which
strong nations lean. And, whereas
we have cultivated the taste for some
foods now more or less In common
use, we did not have to learn to eat
wheat--it came as naturally as the
drinking of water. Man seems to
have been born with liking for
10 . to 70 ira
II ever afterward.
We have heard the title liking ap-
piled to corn, but rightly II belongs
to wheat: for wheat contains all the
fifteen essential elements of nutrl-
tion and there Is probably no one
other article OF food which will carry
man so far or so well.
The people of the United States are
naturally great wheat eaters. The
average per capita, after the grain
has been turned into flour, Is five
bushels year. 1t was In this coun-
try that embarrassing received its
mighty impetus through the invention
of the reaper by Cyrus Mccormick.
It was the reaper that made great
wheat crops possible and cheap bread
n certainty I'm the United States; and
II inevitably followed that we became
the greatest eaters of wheat I'm the
world. All other nations followed
our methods of cultivation and har-
vestlng, and they, too, came to depend
more upon wheat as food and to
raise more of II.
Every Day Harvest.
A writer has truly said that the
sun never sets on the harvest fields of
| the world In every month of the year
wheat Is being harvested somewhere
| In January II Is In the Argentine and
| New Zealand; In February and March
| II is in East India, Upper Egypt, and
| Chill. April finds the work going on
In Lower Egypt, Asia Minor, and Mex,
leo. In May the harvesters are busy
In Algiers, Central Asia, China, Japan
| and Texas.
June sees them at work In the fields
| Of Turkey Spain, Southern France
| California, Tennessee, Virginia, Ken
| lucky, Kansas. Utah and Missouri
| NHtn July NollltH lHt SlINtNl SIlills
TO Northern France, Roumana, Aus
trla- Hungary, Southern Russia, South
ern England, Germany, Switzerland
and, in the United States, I'm Oregon
Nebraska, Southern Minnesota Wis
cOnsin Colorado, Washington, the
| group Of central states. New England
and Eastern Canada. August, per
hans the quletcSt month Of the year
! tin finds plenty going on I'm Holland
Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Po
land, the Dakotas, and Western Cam
ada. In September the scene shifts