MON^TANA-GROWN WHEAT. 



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COMPARISONS WITH THE HARD WINTER WHEATS OF OTHER SECTIONS. 



How does the quality of Montana-grown hard winter wheat com- 

 pare with that grown in other sections ? Outwardly the kernels 

 appear to be a little larger, more uniform, and somewhat more plump 

 on the average. The kernels are very hard and vary in color from 

 dark amber to reddish. The '^ yellow berry," so prevalent in some 

 sections, is not common in 



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Montana, although it has 

 occasionally been observed. 

 That there is almost as great 

 a variation in the charac- 

 teristics and quality of the 

 wheat of this State as in all 

 other sections of the United 

 States where hard winter 

 wheat is grown is shown in 

 figures 6 to 13. 



In milling quality, re- 

 stricting the meaning of 

 this term to flour yield, 

 the Montana-grown wheat 

 resembles the hard winter 

 wheats of the central Plains 

 area very closely. This is 

 evidenced by a compari- 

 son of the data shown dia- 

 grammatically in figures 6, 

 7, and 8. The flour yield 

 does not appear to average 

 quite as high in the com- 

 parisons made in figure 6, 

 but this is readily explained 

 by the fact that on the av- 

 erage the Montana samples 

 were considerably higher in 

 moisture content, a factor 

 which very materially influences the flour yield, as is clearly illus- 

 trated in figure 7. In flour color the Montana wheat shows up to 

 advantage, as none of the samples tested were seriously injured by 

 the presence of smut or from field damage, as was the case with a 

 number of samples from other sections. 



Figure 8 shows that in weight per measured bushel the Montana 

 wheat has about the same range as that observed in the wheat from 

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Fig. 6. — Diagram comparing the milling quality (yield of 

 straight flour, bran, and shorts, and color of flour) of Mon- 

 tana hard winter wheat with that of the hard winter 

 wheat of other sections. The results of tests of samples of 

 the crops of 1908 to 1913, inclusive, are shown. 



