THE WHEAT CULTURIST. 



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The Genesee White-Flint Wheat. 



The illustration herewith given repre- 

 sents the celebrated variety long known 

 and cultivated as the Genesee White- 

 Flint Wheat, which was a very hardy and 

 prolific variety so long as the seed was 

 kept distinct from other kinds of grain, v 

 But after it had been thrashed with other 

 grain and allowed to hybridize with impure \^ 

 varieties, the White Flint character disap- ^R-' 

 peared. The original grain was of a supe- 

 rior character, and yielded a large percent- 

 age of flour. But after the introduction of 

 thrashing-machines, the purity of this va- 

 riety became wonderfully adulterated, so 

 that there seemed to be but little resem- 

 blance between the varieties raised in dif- 

 ferent parts of the country which were 

 cultivated for the Genesee White-Flint 

 Wheat. 



J. H. Klippart says of this variety : 

 " Perhaps the first of this variety intro- 

 duced into Ohio was in Warren County, 

 by Thomas Ireland, in 1842. From there 

 it no doubt spread through the valleys of 

 the Miami ; in many of which it forms the 

 main crop of the white wheats. It is best 

 adapted to high and gravelly lands, and 

 rarely if ever succeeds on a bottom soil. 

 In Franklin County it is regarded as a 

 much surer crop than when first introduced 

 eight years ago." 



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Fig. 19. — Genesee 

 wheat. 



