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identified. The history of the variety is given in the Rural New 

 Yorker of 1858 (3) , as follows : 



The Lynchburg Virginian says: " Seven years ago (1851) Mr. J. L. Bough ton 

 (of Tappahannock, Essex County, Va.) found in his field of wheat four heads 

 that had ripened some 15 days earlier than the remainder of his crop. He pre- 

 served the grain and sowed it, and continued resowing it every year, until his 

 crop comes in this year at least a month earlier than usual." 



Canada Club is a spring wheat and was widely grown from 1850 

 to 1870. It since has practically disappeared from cultivation in the 

 United States. It is stated by Danielson (76, p. 385) to be the Golden 

 Drop originated by F. F. Hallett, of Brighton, England. De Neven 

 (78, p. 148) reported its use and history in 1854 to be as follows: 



The " Canada Club " variety, which is generally regarded among our farmers 

 as the most profitable spring wheat, considering the ease of raising it, brings, to- 

 gether with the " Rio Grande," the highest market price. It was brought to the 

 United States from Canada, where it formerly was extensively cultivated: but 

 not so much now on account of the terrible ravages of the weevil. It was" intro- 

 duced into Canada from France, where it is, at this day, the kind most raised. 

 This wheat is vulgarly known in that country by the name of " Petit ble de 

 mars blanc " (small March white wheat), all kinds of spring wheat being gen- 

 erally designated as " ble de mars," as March is the month in which it is usually 

 sown. 



The " Canada Club " is a bald wheat, grows remarkably even and straight. 

 The straw is uncommonly stiff and its height rather below medium, for which 

 reasons it is less liable to be laid low by the winds and storms than any kind of 

 spring wheat with which I am acquainted, a quality of great value to farmers. 

 The flour made from it is not very fine, but good ; and the quality heavy. 



Castillione is a badly mixed durum spring wheat distributed by 

 Lorenzo Falzone, of Milesville, S. Dak., in 1917. He obtained 2 

 pounds of seed in Italy and grew it for the first time in South Da- 

 kota in 1914, increasing it in 1915 and 1916. As it proved more re- 

 sistant to stem rust in 1916 than other varieties in his neighborhood, 

 he distributed it as a rust-resistant variety. Experiments have not 

 shown it to be especially resistant, however. The fact that it con- 

 tains three distinct types makes it objectionable for growing and im- 

 possible to classify here. It contains strains having both white and 

 black awns and glabrous and pubescent glumes, which may be either 

 white or yellowish. The kernels of all strains are white (amber). 



Kivet is a white-kerneled wheat which has been grown in North 

 Carolina for many years. It was obtained by Blount (Ifi 1 ) and grown 

 and reported in 1892 in his New Mexico experiments. It possibly is 

 the same wheat as White Wonder, as both are grown in the same 

 localities. 



Lost Nation is an old awnless spring wheat of the northeastern 

 United States, which has now gone out of cultivation. A history of 

 the wheat was recorded in 1878 in the Rural New Yorker as follows: 



