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THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



The Defiance is also a vigorous, hardy wheat, with heavy straw and large, full heads. It is 

 beardless, with white chaff and large kernels. The Silver Chaff and Treadwell are both 

 hardy winter wheats. 



To illustrate the manner 

 in which different varieties 

 are often produced, we will 

 give the history of the ori 

 gin of a few of the favorite 

 wheats. In 1866, Mr. Ger- 

 ret Clawson, living in Sen 

 eca County, N. Y., harvest 

 ed a crop of wheat from 

 mixed seed. Among the 

 stubble of this crop lie 

 chanced to find a head of 

 wheat that appeared to him 

 to possess uncommon ex 

 cellence, and he decided to 

 sow it separately and note 

 the result. He did so, and 

 thus gave to the agricul 

 tural world the popular 

 &quot;Clawson&quot; variety. 



Mr. C. G. Pringle, of 

 Charlotte, Vt., who is a 

 practical hybridizer, has not 

 only produced new and val 

 uable varieties of potatoes, 

 but in a non-wheat produc 

 ing State has also origin 

 ated two very valuable va 

 rieties of that kind of grain. 

 This gentleman commenced 

 the work in 1870, by the 

 cross-fertilization of a few 

 ovules in a head of the Black 

 Sea variety with pollen 

 from the Gold Drop, some 

 times known as Siberian. 

 He selected the former be 

 cause it was one of the most 

 hardy varieties then in cul 

 tivation, and the latter on 

 account of the superior 

 quality of its flour, hoping 



to unite the hardiness of THE CHAMPLAIN. 



the one with the excellent qualities of the other in the product. The fruit 

 of this cross was about a half dozen grains, which were sown the following spring, and 

 cultured with great care; the result was several plants showing uniformity of character, 

 intermediate between the Black Sea and Gold Drop. This product was nearly beardless, like 



THE DEFIANCE. 



