DRY-FARMING 



The Durum Wheats.^ 



For more than forty years there have 

 been occasional shipments into the 

 United States of the hard, glossy 

 wheats of the so-called durmn type, 

 chiefly from Russia, but also from Al- 

 geria and Chile. But it is only during 

 the past nine years that public attention 

 has been specially directed to them, and 

 this has been due mainly to the publica- 

 tions and efforts of the National Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. In the year 1900 

 Mr. M. A. Carleton, United States 

 Cerealist, was sent on a mission to Rus- 

 sia. He traveled through the Durum 

 Wheat Zone and secured a large number 

 of varieties which were distributed to the 

 farmers and Experiment Stations in the 

 Great Plains region where the climate 

 and soil conditions are very like those 



^ Also termed macaroni wheats since they are used in 

 the manufacture of macaroni. The twm durum comes 

 from the Latin word meaning hard. 



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