Studies Upon Influences Affecting the Protein Content of Wheat (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Studies Upon Influences Affecting the Protein Content of WheatThe nature Of this work is such that no permanent results can be secured from one or two seasons' operations. The element Of time is an all-essential one for the solution of such problems. This would be true even though the problem was merely the development of wheats giving higher yields than those now being grown in the State, but with the introduction of the problem of increasing the gluten content, the element of time is even of greater importance. With this in view, the experiments were so planned that while the final results could not be expected for several years, it was possible to obtain data of importance bearing upon the entire question of cereal culture each year, material progress thus being assured.As early as 1882 Clifford Richardson called attention to the fact that wheats from the Pacific Coast were relatively low in their protein content, and numerous analyses of California grown wheats made at the California Agricultural Experiment Station under the direction of Dr. E. W. Hilgard, in the earlier years, also showed the same condition to exist.That this condition exists is undoubtedly true, whatever the causes may be. TO bear witness to the fact the following sum mary is given of analyses of white wheats grown in several different states, as compared with the analyses of 149 samples of wheats of the same class grown in California in the same years. For the sake of comparison also the average results obtained from the analysis Of 49 hard winter wheats grown in Kansas the same season are included, as well as those of three soft white wheats grown in Kansas from seed originally obtained from the state Of Washington.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.