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To what extent the varieties of these regions were made so 

 directly by the environment under which they have been 

 grown, and to what extent they are simply the survival of the 

 fittest is still open to further investigation, lo put it in other 

 words, the characters may have been acquired through their 

 present environment, or the present varieties may have been 

 selected as the best of a large number of varieties tested in each 

 region. 



97. Soft Winter Varieties. — Seven stations, including Guelph, 

 Canada, located east of the Mississippi River, have reported 

 tests of varieties of wheat within the past decade. The follow- 

 ing varieties have been reported as having given superior yields 

 at two or more stations : 



Bearded, red or amber grain : Valley, Nigger, Mediterranean, 

 Rudy, Fulcaster, Kansas Mortgage Lifter. 



Bearded, white grain : Early Genesee Giant. 



Beardless, red or amber grain : Mealy, Early Ripe, Poole, 

 Currell's Prolific, New Monarch, Improved Poole, Fultz, Har- 

 vest King, Early Red .Clawson. 



Beardless, white grain : Dawson's Golden Chaff. 



Fultz is probably the most widely and universally grown 

 variety of wheat in the United States. (103) It is what may 

 be called a semihard, red-grained beardless variety with white 

 smooth glumes. Red Fultz (synonyms, Poole and German 

 Emperor) is also largely grown, but differs from Fultz in having 

 bronze smooth glumes. 



98. Hard "Winter Varieties. — The favorite variety of the 

 hard winter wheat is the Turkey (sometimes called Crimean), a 

 bearded, hard red wheat, coming originally from Crimea and 

 other portions of Laurida in southern Russia. 



After testing the comparative hardiness and yield of 275 

 varieties of wheat, covering a series of years, the Kansas Station 

 recommends three bearded varieties, Andrews No. 4, Turkey 

 and Valley, and three beardless varieties, Tasmanian 'Red 



