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BULLETIN 1074, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Distribution. — Grown as Fulcaster or under one of the many synonyms, in 

 Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, 

 Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, 

 New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South 

 Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. (Fig. 55.) 



Synonyms. — Acme, Acme Bred, Bearded Bluestem, Bearded Purplestraw, 

 Blankenship, Blue Ridge, Bluestem, Canadian, Champion, Corn, Cumberland 

 Valley, Dietz, Dietz Longberry, Dietz Longberry Red, Ebersole, Eversole, 

 Egyptian Amber, Farmers Friend, Georgia Red, Golden Chaff, Golden King, 

 Greening, Improved Acme, Ironclad, Kansas Mortgage Lifter, Kentucky Giant, 

 Lancaster, Lancaster-Fulcaster, Lincoln, Martha Washington, Michigan Red 

 Line, Moore's Prolific, Number 10, Price's Wonder, Red Wonder, Stoner (Eden, 

 Famine, Forty-to-One, Half Bushel, Kentucky Wonder, Marvelous, Millennium, 



Millennium Dawn, Miracle, 

 Multiplier, Multiplying, 

 New Light, New Marvel or 

 Goose, Peck, Russellite, 

 Russell's Wonder, Stooling, 

 Two Peck, Three Peck, 

 Wonderful), Turkish Am- 

 ber, Tuscan Island, and 

 Winter King. 



Acme and Acme Bred 

 were names applied to 

 strains of Fulcaster by S. M. 

 Schindel, seedsman, of 

 Hagerstown, Md., about 

 1911. The name Improved 

 Acme is now used also for 

 this variety in Maryland. 

 Bearded Bluestem, Blue- 

 stem, and Bearded Purple- 

 straw are names used for 

 Fulcaster because the va- 

 riety has purple stems. 

 Bearded Purplestraw was first obtained by the Office of Cereal Inves- 

 tigations from Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1899. Blankenship is the name under 

 which a sample of Fulcaster was obtained in 1919 from Stella, Mo., 

 where it had been grown for many years. The report stated that the 

 variety was " very hardy, almost fly proof, branches well, and lays close to 

 ground in winter." Blue Ridge is the name of a wheat practically identical 

 with Fulcaster, which was first obtained from the Kentucky station in 1913. 

 Blue Ridge was reported in 1919 from North Carolina, New Jersey, and 

 Pennsylvania. Canadian is the name under which a sample of Fulcaster was 

 obtained from Dyer, Tenn. It was reported grown in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ten- 

 nessee, and Virginia. Champion is the name used for Fulcaster wheat in 

 Genesee County, Michigan. Corn is the name used for a sample of Fulcaster 

 wheat obtained from Cumberland Valley, Pa. Corn wheat, however, usually 

 refers to Polish wheat. Cumberland Valley is a local name used for Fulcaster 

 in Clinton County, Ohio, during the past 10 years. 



Dietz, Dietz Longberry, and Dietz Longberry Red are apparently the same 

 variety and morphologically identical with Fulcaster. 



Dietz Longberry is reported to have been originated by George A. Dietz, of 

 Chambersburg. Pa. {80, p. 17). 



Fig. 55. — Outline map of the eastern United States, 

 showing the distribution of Fulcaster wheat in 19-9. 

 Estimated area, 2,576,500 acres. 



