THE WHEAT CULTURIST. 



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THE GENESEE WHITE-FLINT WHEAT. 



The illustration herewith given repre- 

 sents the celebrated variety long known 

 and cultivated as the Genesee White- 

 Flint Wheat, which was a very hardy and 

 prolific variety so long as the seed was 

 kept distinct from other kinds of grain. 

 But after it had been thrashed with other 

 grain and allowed to hybridize with impure 

 varieties, the White Flint character disap- 

 peared. The original grain was of a supe- 

 rior character, and yielded a large percent- 

 age of flour. But after the introduction of 

 thrashing-machines, the purity of this va- 

 riety became wonderfully adulterated, so \VM 

 that there seemed to be but little resem- 

 blance between the varieties raised in dif- 

 ferent parts of the country which were 

 cultivated for the Genesee White-Flint 

 Wheat. 



J. H. Klippart says of this variety : 

 " Perhaps the first of this variety intro- 

 duced into Ohio was in Warren County, 

 by Thomas Ireland, in 1842. From there 

 it no doubt spread through the valleys of 

 the Miami ; in many of which it forms the 

 main crop of the white wheats. It is best 

 adapted to high and gravelly lands, and 

 rarely if ever succeeds on a bottom soil. 

 In Franklin County it is regarded as a 

 much surer crop than when first introduced 

 eight years ago." 



FIG. 19. G-enesee 

 wheat. 



