Our country and its people; an introductory geographic reader for the fourth school year by Monroe Will Seymour 1863-

Author:Monroe, Will Seymour, 1863- [from old catalog] & Buckbee, Anna, [from old catalog] joint author
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Published: 1911-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

PACKING FLOUR

THE CENTRAL LOWLANDS

been sown it requires no further care until it is ripe for harvesting. It must be cut at just the right time. On the great wheat-farms of the central plains, most of the harvesting is done by machinery. The harvester is a machine that is drawn by twenty or thirty horses, or it may be drawn by an engine. It cuts a swath twenty-five feet wide and threshes the grain as it goes along.

The story of taking the wheat to market is a long one, and we cannot tell it all in this lesson. Of course it is first drawn to the nearest railroad station in wagons. Here it is stored in large buildings called elevators. It it next taken to some central wheat-market and stored in still larger elevators.

Much of the wheat is ground into flour at convenient cities in the central lowlands, and then shipped to points in the eastern part of our country or to Europe. The flour-mills at Minneapolis are among the largest in the world. This city is near the wheat-fields and it has excellent railway connections with other parts of the country. It is also not very distant from the Great Lakes, which are excellent waterways for the transportation of

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