The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-07
Wheat Introduced In This Country
 About Year 1920

Chicago, March '. - Wheats wbfct are known. to have been used bs primitive man 10000 to 5000 years ago and which are still cultivated ir certain parts of the world, form part of the new exhibit of cultivated wheats which has recently been added to the economic collections of Field Museum of Natural History here.
 Modern cultivated wheats from va riOuS parts of the world complete the exhibit. Most of the wheats have been acquired through the cooperation o1 the office of Cereal Investigation ot the Department of Agriculture. This department is constantly engaged in growing new and old varieties ot wheat in order to determine their suitability under various conditions in the United States.
 Wheat was first introduced into this country in 1520 by the Spaniards and later into New England and Virginia by the early settlers, according to Di- rector D. c. Davis, of the museum
 "In Europe and Asia it has been grown since prehistoric times" MT. Davis states. The beginning of it's cuI- tivation belongs to an early period in the history of the human race.
 Mankind has probably always used the seeds of the wild grasses for food. Some of these furnish very fair-sizeo. grains and from such our cuItivat ed cereals are unqueSionably derived, though botanists cannot now always trace them to their wild prototypes. An example of such is the wild Emmer of Palestine, a, large grained wild grass which has been claimed by some to be the ancestor of our cultivated wheats of today.
 Certain primitive wheats are still grown in places in southern Europe. Such are the Einkorn, Emmer and Spelt, each of which probably repre- sents a group of wheats of separate origin The Einkorn still grows wild in Siberia and elsewhere in the south Of Europe. Speh is the oldest of the cultivated wheats. It was probably the wheat of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt.
 Together with these simple forms there are to be seen such unusual forms as Polish wheat, which. in spite Of its name does not come from Po- land, but from the mountainous re- gions of Spain; Alaska wheat is of the type known as the Miracle wheat or "Seven-headed wheat of Egypt" and Club wheat grown in Chile and in our Rocky Mountains.
 ''The Durum wheat from Russia, which furnishes flour for macaroni and pastes looks much like long bris- tie barley. The small bristly Turkey hard winter wheats of the United States. WiIhelmina, north Euro pean soft wheat may be seen together with the chief American types. The spring wheats of the northwestern great plains region of the United States and Canada are represented by Marquis, Red Fife, and Kitchener varieties. Particularly remarkable is a huge-eared wheat called Dicklow, grown under irrigation in Idaho.
 "Adjoining the wheats at the mu- scum may be seen some of the main kinds of barley. Ordinarily the most brisxly of the grains among these is a perfectly bald variety. which is grown for hay ard may survive. fodder, long after cultivation of the others becomes obsolete with the cessation of matchmaking.
 There has also been added an in tereSting case of wild grasses, rang ing from Alaska and Canadian fod- der grasses to the Silver Pampas grass of South America and Natal grass. This South African grass now helps to impart a roseate hue to the plains of the sandy peninsula of Flor ida"