22 BULLETIN 498, I". S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



has proved superior to Pacific Bltiestem in milling value during that 

 period. 



Talirnka. — Talimka (C. I. No. 2495) is an early-maturing, low- 

 growing, bearded spring wheat (fig. 10, B), with wlrite, glabrous 

 glumes, and large, flinty, hard, amber kernels. The kernels of this 

 rare variety and of related varieties are so large and so hard that some 

 of them were mistaken for varieties of durum wheat when first intro- 

 duced. The Talimka variety was obtained in 1904 by a represent a- 

 tive of the United States Department of Agriculture at Askabad, 

 Russian Turkestan, where other similar varieties and the closely 

 related varieties of the Chul group are commonly grown also. 



At the Moro substation the Talimka variety has proved one of the 

 best yielding of the spring wheats. In a 3-year period, 1913-1915, 



Fig. 12. — Cross sections of loaves of bread made from varieties of hard spring wheat grown al 1 he Moro sub- 

 station. Left to right: Top row, Koola, Pacific Bluestem, and Chul; bottom row, Yantagbay, Aulieata, 

 and Talimka. 



inclusive, its yield has exceeded that of Pacific Bluestem by slightly 

 more than 4 bushels. So far it is grown only in an experimental way. 



MILLING AND BAKING EXPERIMENTS. 



To ascertain the relative milling and baking values of the spring 

 wheats grown at the substation, tests of several varieties have been 

 made by the Plant Chemical Laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry. 

 Table XIII gives the data obtained from analyses of the wheats and 

 of flour milled therefrom. Figures 11 and 12 show loaves of bread 

 made from flour milled from spring-wheat varieties grown at the 

 Moro substation in 1915. The loaf labeled "Standard" is from flour 

 milled from one of the hard spring wheats of the northern Great 

 Plains. All the wheats grown at Moro were milled from four to five 



