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History. — Iowa No. 1946 is a more recent and apparently superior selection 

 developed at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. It is a pure line 

 from a mixed strain of wheat kuown as Iowa No. 1661, which was supposed 

 to have been selected from Banat. The latter was introduced from Russia, but 

 was originally from the Banat district in Hungary. 



Distribution. — Grown to a small extent in Iowa in 1921. 



MONTANA NO. 36. 



Description. — This variety can not be distinguished from Turkey, but has 

 proved superior to it in winter hardiness and yield in experiments and com- 

 mercal trials in Montana. 



History.- — It is a pure-line selection of Kharkof developed at the Montana 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Bozeman, Mont., and distributed by them since 

 the fall of 1915 as a winter-hardy, high-yielding strain. 



Distribution. — Grown in Montana. 



NEBRASKA NO. 60. 



Description. — Nebraska No. 60 is practically identical with Turkey in all taxo- 

 nomic characters. 



History. — This is a high-yielding pure-line selection of Turkey wheat devel- 

 oped at the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. It was distributed for 

 commercial growing and for testing at experiment stations in other States in 

 the fall of 1918. Another selection, Nebraska No. 6, was distributed at the 

 same time. 



Distribution. — Grown in Nebraska. 



WISCONSIN PEDIGEEE NO. 2. 



Description. — This variety is identical with Turkey. 



History. — Wisconsin Pedigree No. 2 is a pure-line selection of Turkey wheat 

 developed by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station and distributed 

 by them as a high-yielding strain since the fall of 1918. 



Distribution. — Grown in Wisconsin. 



KANRED. 



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

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

 midwide ; shoulders narrow, oblique to elevated ; beaks 3 to 25 mm. long ; awns 

 3 to 10 cm. long; kernels dark red, midlong, hard, ovate, to elliptical; germ 

 small; crease narrow to midwide, middeep; cheeks rounded; brush small, 

 midlong. 



Kanred is very similar to Turkey, but is slightly more winter hardy and 

 slightly earlier and can be distinguished from that variety by its longer beaks 

 on the outer glumes and by its resistance to some forms of both leaf and stem 

 rust. This resistance to rust is an important factor in the ability of the variety 

 to outyield Turkey wheat in many sections. It is also about equal to Turkey in 

 milling and bread-making value. A spike, glumes, and kernels of Kanred are 

 shown in Plate XL, B. 



History. — Kanred is the product of a single head selected in 1906 from the 

 Crimean variety (C. I. No. 1435), which had been introduced into the United 

 States from Russia by the United States Department of Agriculture. The 

 selection from which it descended was one of 554 head selections made in 1906 

 by Dr. H. F. Roberts, of the Botany Department of the Kansas Agricultural 

 Experiment Station (162). In 1911 the more promising strains were included 



