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varieties, 7 are bearded and 3 beardless; 7 are white chaffed and 3 

 brown chaffed; and 9 have glabrous (smooth) and 1 pubescent 

 (velvet) chaff. 



Table V. — The ten highest yielding varieties of wheat at the Maryland Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station (College Park) and at Arlington Farm, Va., arranged in order oj 

 yield, with the record of each in both locations. 



[The numerators of fractions in the columns headed "Rank" denote the rank of the variety for the years 

 grown; the denominators indicate the number of varieties grown in those years.] 



/ 



C.I. 

 No. 



Md. 



No. 



At College Park. 



At Arlington Farm. 



Name. 



Rank. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 years 

 grown. 



Aver- 

 age 

 yield. 



Rank. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 years 

 grown. 



Aver- 

 age 

 yield. 



College Park : 



China 



Mammoth Red 



Bearded Purple Straw '. 



2008 

 1911 



194 



195 



89 



188 

 95 



1 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 



8 

 9 

 10 



a 



T5 



7 

 7 



7 



7 



5 



7 

 7 

 7 



31. 17 

 31.09 

 30.95 

 30.11 

 30.03 

 29.62 

 29.56 

 29.53 

 28.92 

 28.71 



25.39 

 30.03 

 27.17 

 25.92 



If 



.2 

 5 

 o 



20.90 

 27. 41 

 23.86 



Lancaster 



Currell 



1945 



17 



li 



5"i 



5 

 2 

 5 

 5 



29.74 

 25.25 



Bearded Winter Fife 



Dietz (Dietz Longberry) 



1942 

 1981 



28.24 

 26.87 













Arlington Farm: 



Purple Straw 



Lancaster 



Fultz 



Purple Straw 



Poole 



Bearded Winter Fife 



Stoner 



Mammoth Red 



Rocky Mountain 



1915 

 1945 

 1733 

 1923 

 1957 

 1979 

 1942 

 2980 

 2008 

 1930 



1 



2 



3 

 4 

 5 



6 



8 

 9 

 10 



5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 4 

 5 

 5 



32.09 

 29.74 

 29.37 

 29.17 

 29.08 



358 



Its 



4 

 7 

 3 

 7 

 5 



29.22 

 29.56 

 25.47 

 31.09 

 26.66 



28.74 

 28.24 

 27.42 

 27.41 

 27.33 



Of the 43 varieties and strains grown at Arlington, the 10 highest in 

 order of yield (Table V) are (1) Purple Straw (C. I. No. 1915), (2) 

 Lancaster, (3) Dawson, (4) Fultz, (5) Purple Straw (C. I. No. 1957), 

 (6) Poole, (7) Bearded Winter Fife, (8) Stoner, (9) Mammoth Ked, 

 and (10) Rocky Mountain. The difference in the 5-year average yield 

 between Purple Straw (C. I. No. 1915) and Rocky Mountain is 4.76 

 bushels. Of these 10 varieties, 8 have red grains and 2 (Nos. 3 and 7) 

 have white grains. Of the red-grained varieties, 3 (Nos. 1, 4, and 5) 

 are beardless, with glabrous white chaff; 3 (Nos. 2, 8, and 9) are 

 bearded, with glabrous white chaff; 1 (No. 6) is beardless, with 

 glabrous brown chaff; and 1 (No. 10) is bearded, with glabrous brown 

 chaff. Of the two white-grained varieties, 1 (No. 3) is beardless, with 

 glabrous brown chaff, and 1 (No. 7) is bearded, with hairy white chaff. 

 Of the 10 varieties, 5 are bearded and 5 beardless; 7 are white chaffed 

 and 3 are brown chaffed; and 9 have glabrous and 1 hairy chaff. 



The Lancaster, Mammoth Red, and Bearded Winter Fife are the 

 only varieties which appear among the 10 best at both College Park 

 and Arlington. Of the other 7 among the 10 best at College Park the 

 China has been grown only 2 years at Arlington and has been low in 

 yield in both; Bearded Purple Straw has been eighteenth and Dietz 



