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Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne.Here the individual sheaves have been put together into a stook ("stooked") to dry. A sheaf of grain on a plaque Sheafing machine. A sheaf (/ ʃ iː f /; pl.: sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.
Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne, England arranged into a stook. Stooking maize in Kenya.. A stook /stʊk/, also referred to as a shock or stack, [1] is an arrangement of sheaves of cut grain-stalks placed so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground while still in the field and before collection for threshing.
Sheaves of Wheat painted after the harvest and concluding with Field with Haystacks (private collection). Green Wheat Fields or Field with Green Wheat was made in May. Wheat Field at Auvers with White House was made in June. The painting is mainly a large green field of wheat. In the background is a white house behind a wall and a tree.
Wheat is a group of wild and domesticated grasses of the genus Triticum (/ ˈ t r ɪ t ɪ k ə m /). [3] They are cultivated for their cereal grains, which are staple foods around the world. Well-known wheat species and hybrids include the most widely grown common wheat (T. aestivum), spelt, durum, emmer, einkorn, and Khorasan or Kamut.
Pennies depicting two sheaves of wheat were discontinued in favor of today’s Lincoln versions in 1958. Smith said there are other benefits to getting rid of the heavy-to-transport pennies.
Arles: View from the Wheat Fields [7] represents the harvest. In the foreground are sheaves of harvested wheat leaning against one another. The center of the painting depicts the harvesting process, [8] a couple at work in a sea of yellow and ochre. Across the horizon is the town of Arles. [9]
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Sheaves of grain would be opened up and the stalks spread across the threshing floor. Pairs of donkeys or oxen (or sometimes cattle , or horses) would then be walked round and round, often dragging a heavy threshing board behind them, to tear the ears of grain from the stalks, and loosen the grain itself from the husks .