VARIETIES OF WHEAT 



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soft winter wheat The Fife, Marquis, Bluestem, and Vel- 

 vet Chaff are best known and most widely grown as hard 

 spring wheats. The Velvet Chaff is a bearded spring 

 wheat of the Fife variety, but is considered inferior to Fife 

 and Bluestem as a bread-making wheat. 



The type of wheat known as the Durum or Macaroni is 

 now quite generally grown in the semiarid regions of the 



Fig. 34. Some common strains of wheat. From left to right, Turkey Red, Fife, 

 Velvet Chaff, and Bluestem. The Fife and the Bluestem are beardless. 



United States. This wheat is drought and rust resistant, 

 and for these reasons is quite popular in those regions. It 

 is very hard and high in gluten content but loses these 

 properties and its resistance to disease if grown in a moist 

 climate. The Durum wheats are bearded spring varieties. 



