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SHORT DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES TESTED 



SMOOTH-HEADED VARIETIES 



I'urple Straw, Red May, and Fultz are smooth-headed wheats with 

 slightly purple straw, white chaff and red berries. Purple Straw is a 

 somewhat more vigorous grower under our conditions than either of 

 the other two. J{(?d May made the shortest straw of the three this 

 year and, at the I I'cdell farm, the lowest yield per acre. It also has 

 the lowest per cent, of grain to straw of any variety tested. These 

 are all apparently pure wheats, no admixture of other varieties being 

 conspicuously discernible. 



The wheat secured from Col. J. S. Carr, of Durham, called Carr's 

 Select, and grown on the Occoneechee farm at Jlillsboro, is a smooth- 

 headed variety with heavy straw-colored chaff", red berry and yellow 

 straw. It made a growth of about 45 inches under conditions existing 

 at the Iredell farm in 1911. This variety ranked sixth in yield at 

 both the Iredell and Buncombe farms, making over 21 bushels to the 

 acre at both places. Leap's Prolific seems to be identical with Carr's 

 Select and yielding about the same number of bushels per acre at the 

 Iredell farm, but ranked tenth at the Buncombe farm while Carr's 

 Choice ranked sixth. 



Klondyke is a semi-club-headed wheat with purple straw, red chaff 

 and white berry. It grew about 3 feet high at the Iredell farm this 

 year and yielded 15.5 bushels per acre. 



BEARDED VARIETIES 



Australian Red, Fulcaster, Young's Dietz Mediterranean, Shoaf's and 

 Bearded Fulcaster, all have purple straw, white chaff, and red berries. 

 Three of these, Dietz Mediterranean, Shoaf's and Bearded Fulcaster 

 have an admixture of another bearded variety. 



Acme, Miller's Choice, Red Wonder, and Lancaster all have yellow 

 straw, red chaff, and red berries. Lancaster has an admixture of some 

 other variety but the others are practically pure varieties. The accom- 

 panying cuts show the general outline of these different wheats. 



