DISCOVERY OF MARQUIS WHEAT 163 



1918, namely 72,417,000 biishels,22 then to this crop 

 Marquis will contribute approximately 47,000,000 bushels. 

 These estimates are sufficient to indicate to how great an 

 extent Marquis must have replaced other grains such as 

 Preston and Bluestem in Minnesota in the short period 

 of five years which began in 1913 when it was first in- 

 troduced from Canada on a large scale. But the end is 

 not yet ; for Marquis is becoming more and more favored 



Fig. 28. Reference map for the United States. 



by the farmers owing to its excellent yield, its plump, 

 heavy, rich red-colored, highly uniform grains, its earli- 

 ness, and its value to millers, and it appears destined in 

 the very near future still further to strengthen its posi- 

 tion as the dominant spring wheat of Minnesota. 



One of the maps in the excellent Geography of the 

 World's Agriculture, recently published at Washington, 

 shows the distribution of spring wheat in the United 



22 Monthly Crop Report, October, 1918, Bureau of Crop Estimates, 

 Washington. 



