200 



THE SMALL GRAINS 



of Lancaster wheat, which is an awned variety, found 

 three spikes of awnless wheat. He sowed the seed from 

 these spikes the same year, and continued sowing a larger 

 amount each year, until he obtained sufficient seed to 

 distribute it pretty well over the country. 

 It soon became a well-marked and popular 

 variety, called Fultz from the name of the 

 breeder, and is now the best known of 

 American wheats. In 1871 the United 

 States Department of Agriculture distrib- 

 uted 200 bushels of the wheat for seed. 

 This variety is rather early in ripening, 

 fairly hardy, and possesses a semi-hard, 

 red kernel of good quality. It comes 

 nearest being a general purpose wheat of 

 all our varieties, being grown with good 

 success in nearly all parts of the country 

 and in several foreign countries. It is a 

 parent of several important crosses (Fig. 

 63). 



208. White Clawson. Next to Fultz, 

 one of the best known of our native wheats 

 is White Clawson, or simply Clawson. 

 This variety originated in Seneca County, 

 New York, in 1865, through the selection 



FIG. 63. Fultz O f certain superior spikes from a field of 

 Fultz by Garrett Clawson. On planting 

 the grain from these spikes, both a white and red ker- 

 neled sort resulted the following season. The white 

 wheat was considered the best, and the pint of seed 

 obtained of this sort was sown, producing 39 pounds 

 the following season. The third year after this 254 

 bushels were harvested, and that season the variety 



