seed-wheat

Next in moral grandeur, was this ship, to the great discoverer's: Columbus found a continent; the May-flower brought the seed-wheat of states and empire.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

This even the Turks could see; and a firman had been procured without difficulty, enabling them to erect their houses and to lease and cultivate a certain portion of land, planting American seed-wheat and maize where before grew only _gran turco_, barley, sesamum and anise.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

There the seed-wheat lies tucked up in its warm brown bed till rain and sunshine call out the tiny green spears, and coax them higher and stronger, and the hot sun of June and July ripens the precious grain.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

The brain is the soil upon which impressions act differently, according to its character, just as, with the sower casting his seed-wheat upon different fields, some springs up into a luxuriant crop, some grows sparsely, and some, again, takes no root, but rots where it falls.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various

Elated by his progress he went to the scraping and hoeing of his clearance with a will, lifted his potatoes, pitted them, and sowed all his seed-wheat.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

Firdale seein 'about some seed-wheat for sowin' to-morrow, an 'I was in

Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

This seed-wheat was divided among the early missions and as soon as possible was planted -- not with success at first.

History of California Helen Elliott Bandini

He discussed the various knitting wools with Mrs. Perkins, and told Thomas Perkins a new way of putting formalin on his seed-wheat to get rid of the smut, and how to put patches on grain bags with flour paste.

The Second Chance 1910

But it's a relief to converse about something besides summer-fallowing and breaking and seed-wheat and tractor-oil and cows 'teats.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

I've had a letter from Whinstane Sandy to-day, writing about seed-wheat and the repairs for the tractor.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912