DRY-FARMING 



Europe and the Orient. The main va- 

 rieties are Defiance, Little Club, White 

 Australian, and Sonora in California; 

 Red Chaff and Foise in Oregon; Palouse, 

 Red Russian, and also Blue-stem, in 

 Washington and Idaho. So far all at- 

 tempts to maintain high gluten content 

 in wheats brought to the Pacific Coast 

 region have failed. As soon as the hard 

 varieties have become acclimated in this 

 region they are found to be starchy and 

 soft and so closely resemble the Pacific 

 Coast types in chemical composition. 

 This is particularly true of the wheat 

 sections of California. It is thus cus- 

 tomary for the millers of California to 

 import hard sorts so as to strengthen 

 their own flour. As Jardine points out 

 this is another possible use for durum 

 wheats raised farther east. Such a 

 course would increase the market for the 

 durums and at the same time prove of 

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