ABSTRACT
The culture of wheat has perhaps never been exclusively the subject of, individual effort, but has also always been the subject of institutional essay, however vague and remote. The National Governments of all of the principal wheat growing countries of the world are factors in an official capacity in the culture of wheat, and at times millions of dollars are expended by a single government in endeavoring to solve some problem of unusual importance. The story of the agriculture of the wheat area in the middle west of our country is the oft repeated one of agriculture in a new country, a fact which bespeaks an economic justification. Wheat improvement proper consists of artificially increasing the natural variations of the wheat plant and its environment. The chance of improvement by selection increases as the number from which individuals may be chosen grows larger.
