14 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CEREALS. 



NOTES ON THE GROUPS AND VARIETIES. 



The above-mentioned varieties are shown by the reports to be dis- 

 tributed as follows : 



(a) WINTER WHEAT. 



(1) Clawson. — Eeports from fifty-five correspondents in nineteen 

 States localize this variety entirely within the Upper Austral and 

 Transition zones. It seems best fitted for the Upper Austral, but thrives 

 also in southern parts of the Transition, in Pennsylvania and Massa- 

 chusetts. This is due to the wheat having been planted in the upper 

 Ohio and Connecticut E-iver valleys, which traverse the Transition 

 zone. 



(2) Fulcaster. — Eeports from ninety-five correspondents in twenty 

 States limit this variety mainly to the Upper Austral. It is reported, 

 however, from three counties in northern Texas, five in Oklahoma, and 

 one in Mississippi, all in the Lower Austral zone. In Pennsylvania, it 

 touches the Transition, although usually in valleys where Upper Aus- 

 tral conditions prevail. 



(3) i^»Z^^.— Eeports on this variety were received from two hundred 

 and twenty-five correspondents scattered over thirty States. This is 

 the most extensively grown variety of wheat reported on, being raised 

 from the Atlantic almost to the Pacific, and from the Gulf States to 

 those bordering the G-reat Lakes. Its successful cultivation, however, 

 is mainly restricted to the Upper Austral zone. Here it grows in 

 upper Mississippi and some parts of Alabama, at three points in Texas, 

 seven in Oklahoma, and seven in Tennessee. In the North, at one 

 point in southwestern Wyoming (Evanston), at two in western Mon- 

 tana (Plains and Springbill), at two in Wisconsin, and at a number of 

 points in northeastern Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York it seems to 

 make successful growth within the Transition zone. Along the AUe- 

 giianies, in Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Virginia 

 it succeeds in Upper Austral valleys. The general reports of corre- 

 spondents indicate that it does not find the most successful conditions 

 in the Lower Austral, although, with one exception, reports from Okla- 

 homa are excellent. Fultz really belongs to the Upper Austral and 

 has been grown in many localities in this zone from twenty to thirty 

 years with much success. 



(4) May. — This variety, or one closely related to it, is also known in 

 some localities by the names of Eed May, Little May, Big May, Early 

 May, and Late May. Eeports were received from sixty-four correspond- 

 ents in fourteen States, from points in either the Upper or Lower 

 Austral, usually the latter, but none from localities in the Transition 

 zone, May wheat seems to be grown most extensively in Alabama, 

 Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, 

 and Texas. Except in Kansas, two points in south and central Illinois, 



