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(female) and Turkey (male) in 1902, when Prof. W. M. Hays was in charge of 

 The plant breeding. Several selections from this cross grown in 1915 showed 

 unusual promise for winter hardiness, and, after further experiments reported 

 by Hayes and Garber (106, p. 17-28), the most hardy strain (Minn. No. 1505) 

 was named Minhardi and distributed. 



Distribution. — Grown at experiment stations in the Great Plains area and 

 commercially in Minnesota in 1920. 



Synonym. — Minnesota No. 1505. This is the Minnesota accession number 

 under which Minhardi was known and grown until it was named. 



LOFTHOUSE. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall; stem white, mid- 

 strong ; spike awnless, fusiform, middense, inclined ; glumes glabrous, white, 

 midlong, midwide; shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, 

 1 mm. long ; apical awns several, 5 to 30 mm. long ; kernels red, midlong, soft, 

 ovate ; germ small ; crease midwide, middeep ; cheeks usually angular ; brush 

 small, midlong. 



There is some confusion as to the identity of this variety. It frequently 

 has been referred to as white kerneled and often is confused with the Kofod 

 variety. 



History. — A wheat by the name of Lofthouse has been grown in Utah since 

 about 1890. The sample from which were grown the plants described above 

 was obtained by the Nephi, Utah, substation from the State station at Logan, 

 Utah, in 1904. The origin of the variety can not be accurately traced, and 

 considerable confusion exists as to whether the variety originally was a white- 

 kerneled or red-kerneled wheat. According to Prof. J. B. Nelson, now of the 

 Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, the variety became established in 

 Utah from seed distributed by a Mr. Lofthouse, a farmer at Paradise, Utah, 

 about 16 miles south of Logan. Professor Nelson states that in 1893 or 1894, 

 in a conversation with Mr. Lofthouse regarding the best varieties of wheat 

 for dry farming, he was told that Mr. Lofthouse had received a sample of 

 soft white winter wheat from the United States Department of Agriculture 

 a year or two previously, which promised to produce large yields and was a 

 good milling wheat. He stated that he had sufficient seed on hand at that 

 time to sow a good acreage, that he was going to sell it to the dry farmers 

 at market value, and that he had named the wheat Lofthouse. The wheat 

 was hardy, standing the winter better than other varieties, and soon became 

 the most extensively grown winter wheat in northern Utah and southern 

 Idaho. While the above statement shows that the wheat originally was white 

 kerneled, the wheat grown at Nephi, Utah, since 1904 is red kerneled. 



Distribution. — Grown in Bannock, Cassia, and Franklin Counties, Idaho, 

 and Boxelder, Cache, Sevier, and AYashington Counties, Utah. Part of this 

 distribution was reported as white kerneled. 



Synonyms. — Winter La Salle, Winter Nellis. Winter La Salle is a name used 

 as a synonym for Lofthouse wheat in Utah. It is thought to be the name 

 under which the wheat later named Lofthouse was sent to Utah by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. The writers, however, are without 

 a history of the origin or distribution of this wheat. Winter Nellis is also 

 a name commonly used for Lofthouse wheat in Utah. 



BIG FRAME. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall ; stem white, midstrong ; 

 spike awnless, fusiform, middense, inclined ; glumes glabrous, white, midlong, 



