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grained varieties. Bluestem is a beardless velvet 

 chaff wheat with grain of medium hard quality 

 and reddish color. Velvet Chaff is a trade name 

 for several varieties of bearded soft wheat. Club 

 Head is a soft white wheat with short, stubby, 

 very compact heads, usually beardless, with 

 smooth chaff. All of the types and varieties 

 named above except the Durum wheat, belong 

 to the group "Common Wheat," Triticum sativum 

 vulgare. The Club Head is usually classed as a 

 sub-species, Triticum compactum. Carleton has 

 given the natural groups of wheat and the names 

 of all leading varieties adapted for growing in the 

 different wheat districts of the world.* 



MILLING VARIETIES 



Two general types of milling wheat are grown 

 in the United States, hard wheat and soft wheat. 

 The great plains region is particularly adapted 

 for growing hard red wheat of excellent quality, 

 the best bread making wheat in the world. Nearly 

 half of the wheat grown in the United States is 

 grown in the north central states west of the 

 Mississippi river, viz: Minnesota, Iowa, Mis- 

 souri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska 

 and Kansas. These states are mainly in the hard 

 wheat belt, as are also Oklahoma and Texas. The 

 Rocky mountain states also grow some hard wheat. 

 Soft wheat is grown in the more humid climates, 

 mainly in the north-eastern and north central 



' United States Bulletin No. 24, Division of Vegetable Physi- 

 ology. 



