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of this range. In what follows we shall concern ourselves 

 solely with the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South 

 Dakota, and Montana, where most of the spring wheat is 

 grown. 



In the great spring-wheat region of the United States, 

 Marquis gives an excellent yield, as is evident from the 

 following Table reproduced from a Monthly Crop Report 

 recently published at Washington.^ The Table gives the 

 estimated number of bushels per acre for each important 

 variety of wheat in Minnesota and the two Dakotas in the 

 years 1914, 1916, and 1917, and similar figures for Mon- 

 tana in 1917. The data for the abnormally large crop 

 year of 1915, unfortunately, are not included. Here 

 again, Velvet Chaff is another name for Preston. 



85 Monthly Crop Report, August, 1918, Washington, p. 95. 



