ALASKA AND STONER, OR MIRACLE, WHEATS. 



The chaff is usually without hairs, but sometimes it is hairy. Some 

 have simple heads, like the common and durum wheats; others have 

 branched heads. 



The poulard variety here discussed as 

 Alaska wheat is fairly well known in the 

 United States. It has branched heads and 

 hairs on the chaff. It has been adver- 

 tised many different 

 times under many 

 names, but has 

 never become per- 

 manently e s t a b - 

 lished. On account 



Fig. 1. — Large, medium, and small heads of Alaska wheat. (About half natural size.) 



of the large, branching head it has always been easy to interest people 

 in this variety. Heads of this wheat are shown in figure 1. 



EARLY HISTORY OF ALASKA WHEAT. 



Poulard wheat iii one or another of its forms is grown to some 

 extent in the Mediterranean region of Europe. This variety of 

 poulard wheat with branched head has been known in this country 

 under many different names, xlmong them are Alaska, Egyptian, 

 Eldorado, Jerusalem, Many-Headed, Many- Spiked j Miracle, Multi- 

 ple-Headed, Mummy, Keed, Seven-Headed, Smyrna, Syrian, Wheat 



