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BULLETIN 1074, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



[A. S.-S189.] 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 



BUREAU OF CROP ESTIMATES. 



WHEAT VARIETY SURVEY SCHEDULE. 



TO BE MAILED PROMPTLY. 



Washington, D. C, March, 1919. 

 Deab Sib: The Department of Agriculture wishes to learn more about the wheat crop and the changes that are taking place ia 

 varieties being grown. 



To the wheat-growing industry this is very important. Every schedule properly filled and promptly returned will make the results 

 of greater value. It is hoped that you will cooperate by fi l ling the schedule as completely as possible and returning it in the inclosed 

 envelope, which requires no postage. 



If you are unable to give the information asked, but know some one in the county who can, will you please refer this schedule to 

 him. If no wheat is grown in your county, please Teturn this schedule, writing across it "No wheat." " 

 Respectfully, 



LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief of Bureau. 



QUESTIONS. 



(Insert answers for your own community in tabular form below.} 



A. What wheat varieties are grown in your locality? 



B. What percentage of the total wheat acreage in your locality does each variety represent? 



C. Please describe the varieties named by writing in the columns below the proper word, as "Winter," 

 "Spring," or "Both," and so on for head, chaff, and kernel characters. 



WHEAT VARIETIES. 



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. 



Any further facts you can give about these varieties will be appreciated. For instance, if any of them 

 are used only, or chiefly, on some particular kind of soil, please tell that fact. If any of them are newly in- 

 troduced in the co mmuni ty, please tell where and when they were obtained, (Back of this sheet may be 

 used for this purpose.) 



Name . 



Post Office 



I livo _..*. 



, miles 



f^L^^^U....^...,,., 



.«... ^^. and ,.„„,3„^. miles „ 



County „.^pi^yi 



State 



f<irom this post office; 



Fig. 1. — A returned questionnaire of the wheat varietal survey. 



some. Others are only numbers, which sometimes are equally long 

 and cumbersome or are easily confused. Because of this condition, 

 a code of nomenclature was proposed by Ball and Clark (43), so 

 that in this classification varietal names could be selected in ac- 

 cordance with its rules. The code was presented to the American 

 Society of Agronomy at its annual business meeting on November 

 13, 1917. After a few minor changes were made by the committee 

 on varietal nomenclature, it was adopted by the society (37) as 

 follows : 



