CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 



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Synonym, — Wisconsin Wonder. Prelude wheat has been distributed as 

 Wisconsin Wonder by H. E. Krueger, of Beaver Dam, Wis. In advertising the 

 variety Mr. Krueger claims to have originated it from the selection of a plant 

 grown in a held of Marquis about 1910. The distribution of Wisconsiu Wonder 

 wheat dates from 1916. It was reported in 1919 from seven counties in Wis- 

 consin. 



HUMPBACK. 



Description. — Plant spring habit, late, tall ; stem white, midstrong ; spike 

 awned, fusiform, middense to lax. inclined ; glumes pubescent, white, long, 

 mid wide; shoulders usually wanting, sometimes narrow, oblique; beaks 2 to 8 

 mm. long ; awns 3 to 8 cm. long ; kernels pale red. midlong to long, semihard, 

 ovate, humped; germ large: crease midwide, deep, pitted; cheeks rounded to 

 angular ; brush small, long. 



This variety is distinct because of its pubescent glumes and its rather large, 

 soft kernels, which are distinctly humped. It is a very poor milling and 

 bread-making variety. A spike, glumes, and kernels of Humpback are shown 

 in Plate XLVIII. B. 



History. — The Humpback variety originated from field selections made by 

 J. P. Berglund, a farmer living near Kensington, Minn. ( 190, p. 1). The original 

 head was probably the result of a natural field hybrid. 

 Two strains were developed, the first being the strain 

 above described, which was distributed about 1905. 

 The second has glabrous glumes, but is otherwise 

 .similar. It is described elsewhere as Dixon. 



Distribution. — Humpback wheat Avas reported spar- 

 ingly grown in Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, North 

 Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. (Fig. 67.) 



Synonyms. — Bearded Bluestem and World Beater. 

 Bearded Bluestem is the name by which the variety 

 was first distributed by Mr. Berglund, but the name 

 Humpback soon became attached to the variety and 

 the use of the name Bearded Bluestem largely has 

 discontinued. World Beater is the name under 

 which a wheat practically identical with Humpback was obtained from 

 a farmer named Bruegger, in the vicinity of Williston, N. Dak., in 1913. At 

 that time World Beater was cultivated to a small extent in that locality. It 

 w;is not reported in 1919. 



Fig. 67. — Outline map of 

 the north-central United 

 States, showing the dis- 

 tribution of Humpback 

 wheat in 1919. Esti- 

 mated area, 31,900 acres. 



PENQTUTE (PENQTTITE'S VELVET CHAFF). 



Description. — Planl winter habit, midseason, midtall; stem purple, mid- 

 etrong; spike awned. fusiform, middense, nodding; glumes pubescent, brown, 

 long, midwide, easily deciduous; shoulders wanting to narrow, usually oblique; 

 i in - mm. Ion'.:: awns '.', |o 7 cm. long; kernels red, midlong, soft, ovate, 

 humped; germ midsized; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks rounded; brush 

 Mii.-iii. midlong. 



History. According to Thorne 1 192, p. 618) : 



wheal originated in Clinton County, <>hio, where in L857 or 1858 Mr. 

 Abram Penquite, while cradling in a field of wheal, noticed three heads of a 

 different variety from the real of the held. These he saved and propagated, 

 and from them has come the wheat now widely known in southwestern Ohio 

 as the Velvet Chuff. 



