Country life reader (1916) (14585019419)

Identifier: countrylifereade00stev (find matches)
Title: Country life reader
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stevenson, Orlando John, 1869- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Country life. (from old catalog) Readers
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ds,Underneath the snow and sleet,In the bosom of the ploughlandSleeps the Promise of the Wheat;With the ice for head and foot stone,And a snowy shroud outspread.In the frost-locked tomb of Winter295 296 COUNTRY LIFE READER Sleeps the Miracle of Bread ! With its hundred thousand reapers And its hundred thousand men, And the click of guard and sickle And the flails that turn again; And drovers shout and snap of whips And creak of horses tugs, And a thin red line o gingham girls That carry water-jugs; And yellow stalks and dagger beards That stab through cotton clothes, And farmer boys a-shocking wheat In long and crooked rows; And dust-veiled men on mountain stacks. Whose pitchforks flash and gleam; And threshing-engines shrieking songs In syllables of steam; And elevators painted red That lift their giant arms And beckon to the Harvest God Above the brooding farms; And loaded trains that hasten forth, A hungry world to fill— All sleeping just beneath the snow^ Out yonder on the hill!
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A Western wheat-field. WHEAT, FLOUR, AND BREAD Imagine, if you can, that a grain of wheat has grownvery large, so large that you can easily see all its partsand can cut it to pieces with a knife so as to see how it isformed. You will, of course, notice the brush of finehairs at one end and the crease or furrow which runsdown the front of the grain; but these things are on theoutside, and the important thing for us is to see the in-side of the grain. Let us cut our big kernel of grain intwo across the middle and look at one of the ends that arecut. There is nothing very wonderful here—just a finewhite substance covered by a rind or skin. If we couldexamine this rind closely with a microscope we should 297 298 COUNTRY LIFE READER see that it has a hning of plant cells which are closelypacked together. This rind or skin is generally spoken ofas the bran. The white substance is called the en-dosperm, and it is this substance of which flour is made. Now, if you will look at the lower end