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it has been grown for five to eight years to a very limited extent, both as a 

 winter and a spring wheat in Ravalli County, Mont. Carleton stated that 

 Odessa could be grown as either a winter or a spring wheat. Most samples 

 grown by the writers showed the winter habit, but as some strains are heterozy- 

 gous for winter and spring habit a portion of the crop from the bulk variety 

 would produce seed from spring sowing. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, late, tall ; stem glaucous, white, strong ; 

 spike awnless, oblong, middense. erect to inclined ; glumes glabrous, light brown, 

 * short, wide ; shoulders wide, oblique to square ; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 1 mm, 

 long ; apical awns few, 2 to 8 mm. long ; kernels red, midlong, soft, oval ; germ 

 midsized ; crease midwide, middeep ; cheeks angular ; brush midsized, long. 



This is a high-yielding variety, but its milling quality is poor. 



History. — Ruddy was originated by hybridization at the Washington Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Pullman, Wash. It has Jones Fife, Little Club, and 



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Fig. 40. — Outline map of the northwestern United States, showing 

 the distribution of Odessa wheat in 1919. Estimated area, 54,200 

 acres. 



Turkey in its parentage and is a selection from the same cross from which 

 Triplet was obtained. Ruddy was grown first as a pure, line in 1910 and was 

 named and distributed to a few farmers in the fall of 1919. 

 Distribution. — Grown experimentally in Washington. 



RUPERT (RUPERT'S GIANT). 



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

 spike awnless, linear-obling to subclavate, middense, nodding ; glumes glabrous, 

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

 wide, obtuse, 1.0 long; apical awns several, 2 to 20 mm. long;, kernels red, 

 midlong, soft, ovate to elliptical ; germ small to midsized ; crease wide, middeep 

 to deep ; cheeks usually rounded ; brush midsized, midlong. 



Rupert differs from Red Wave in having an oblong spike, which sometimes is 

 subclavate. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of this wheat are shown in Plate 

 XXVII, A. 



History. — The origin of this variety is not definitely known. Apparently it 

 was first grown under the name Woods, concerning which R. Crouch, of Mor- 

 ristown, Tenn., wrote the Office of Cereal Investigations, as follows : 



Mr. William Woods, of Talbott, Tenn., many years ago noticed an extra head 

 of wheat in his field, and from this head of wheat Woods wheat is largely raised 

 in this (Hamblen) and adjoining counties. 



