48 



WHEAT CULTURE. 



Fig. 5. DEFIANCE 



WHEAT. 



bushel, one thousand 

 three hundred and forty 

 pounds of straw, and 

 two hundred and ninety- 

 seven pounds chaff." 



In "Wisconsin, as in 

 most of the prairie 

 States, spring varieties 

 are suited to large por- 

 tions of the State. In 

 spring wheats, Arnaut- 

 ka, Club, Odessa, Fife, 

 and Eussian White, are 

 most popular ; in the 

 winter wheats, Clawson, 

 Genesee Flint, Gold 

 Dust, Fultz, Jennings, 

 Lancaster, Mediterrane- 

 an, and Eed, are the 

 popular varieties. 



THEEE NEW VARIETIES* 



Recently two new va- 

 rieties of Spring Wheat 

 have been produced in 

 Vermont. They are re- 

 ported as giving large 

 yields, and being valua- 

 ble, and are represented 

 in the engravings figs. 

 4 and 5 on the previous 

 and this page. The 

 "Champlam" is a beard- 

 ed, red-kernel wheat ; 

 the other, "Defiance," 

 is a white, bald wheat, 



Fig. 6. RUSSIAN 



SPRING WHEAT. 



