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Ramsey and Currell.^ Sibley's New Golden (bearded) gave the 

 largest average yield during six years at the Oklahoma Station.^ 



99. Hard Spring Varieties. — The two types of hard spring 

 wheat of which there are many varieties are the Fife and the Blue 

 Stem. Both are beardless with white glumes, which in the Blue 

 Stem are covered with fine velvety hairs but in the Fife are 

 smooth. The Minnesota Station after years of testing 200 

 varieties of wheat has selected two of the Fife type (Power's 

 Fife and Glyndon) and two of the Blue Stem type (Bolton's 

 Blue Stem and Haynes' Blue Stem) as the best four varieties for 

 combined yield and quality.^ This station has also originated 

 an improved strain of Glyndon under the name of Minnesota 

 No. 163. Preston, a bearded variety, originated by Dr. William 

 Saunders, Director of the Dominion Experiment Farms, Ottawa, 

 Canada, has given good results at several stations. 



Spring varieties of durum and macaroni wheats are now 

 being recommended in the semiarid portion of the spring wheat 

 district. South Dakota reports that macaroni wheat will yield 

 from twenty-five to 100 per cent more than the best Blue Stem 

 and Fife wheats, the difference in favor of the macaroni wheats 

 increasing as the conditions for raising bread (common) wheat 

 become less favorable.* At the North Dakota Station the 

 average yield of a number of durum (Russian) varieties during 

 four years (i 899-1 902) was 30.3, while for the Blue Stem and 

 Fife varieties combined it was 25.9 bushels.^ 



The reports from the Nebraska Station ^ and from the Colo- 

 rado Station^ are less favorable, while the Minnesota Station 



1 Rpt. Kans. St. Bd. Agr. Quar. ending March, 1902, p. 76. 



2 Okla. Bui. 47, p. 44. 



8 Minn. Bui. 62 (1899), p. 354. 



4 S. Dak. Bui. 'j'], p. 7. 



5 13th Rpt. N. Dak. Sta. (1903), p. ^^. 

 8 Neb. Bui. 78. 



' Col. Press BuL 17. 



