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County, Virginia. The account of its discovery as given in the Report 

 of the Department of Agriculture for 1872 is as follows: " He noticed in 

 his field a bunch of wheat of such growth as to attract his attention * =^' * 

 At harvest he found it to be a white wheat, at least two weeks 

 earlier than the surrounding red wheat." The Fultz wheat, which is 



Fig, 142. — Good and poor heads of Sciteca Chief zvlieat zvith grain 

 from siiiiilar heads. About txvo-tliirds natural sice. 



a very popular and excellent race, grown extensivey in the eastern states, 

 was found in 1862 in a field of Lancaster Rod by a ]\Ir. Abraham Fultz 

 of Pennsylvania. Some beautiful heads of smooth wheat attracted his at- 

 tention and they were saved and the seeds planted by themselves. 

 These produced the wheat later named the Fultz. The American 

 races, Wheatland ]\(:(], Pride of Butte, and Gold Coin, and the well 

 known Fnglish races. Tlopctown and Chevalier, were other acciden- 



