CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 



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wan Fife (201). This wheat in a few years became well known and quite 

 widely grown and is still in cultivation. It was reported grown in New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota. 



Description. — Power is slightly shorter and has a more erect spike than 

 Red Fife, and the kernels are slightly shorter. A spike of Power wheat is 

 shown in Plate VI, Figure 3. 



History — Power is a pure-line selection of Red Fife wheat which was started 

 about 1885 by James Holes, of Fargo, N. Dak., from a single plant of Red 

 Fife wheat found growing in an oat field {39, p. 11). Some of this seed 

 was obtained by J. B. Power, of Power, N. Dak., who increased it and dis- 

 tributed it in large quantities under the name of Power Fife. This strain 

 was grown by the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and known 



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Fig. 35. — Outline map of the United States, showing the distribution of Red Fife wheat 

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as Station No. 66. A number of pure-line selections were made from it at 

 the North Dakota Experiment Station in 1892. One of these pure lines, known 

 as North Dakota No. 313 (O. I. No. 3697), has been called Power, and is 

 the strain now most commonly grown. In experiments at the Williston sub- 

 station, Williston, N. Dak., it proved to be a high-yielding wheat for that 

 section, and seed was recently increased and distributed in the vicinity of that 

 station. 



Distribution. — Grown in Montana and North Dakota. 



Synonyms. — Power's Fife, Station No. 66. 



GLYNDON. 



Descriptic/n. — Plant spring habit, midseason, midtall to tall; stem white, 

 midstrong; spike awnless, fusiform, middense to lax, inclined; glumes glabrous, 

 white, midlong, mldwide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks narrow, 

 acute, 0.5 to 1.0 mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 15 nun. long; kernels red, 

 midlong, hard, ovate; genu midsized; crease wide, deep; cheeks angular; brush 

 mid lized, midlong. 



