CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 71 



WHITE FEDERATION. 



Description. — Plant spring habit, early, short to midtall ; stem white, strong, 

 spike awnless, oblong, middense, erect; glumes glabrous, white, short, wide; 

 shoulders wide, square ; beaks narrow, acute, 0.5 mm. long ; apical awns want- 

 ing or nearly so ; kernels white, short, semihard to hard, ovate, with truncate 

 tip ; germ midlarge ; crease midwide, middeep ; cheeks rounded ; brush mid- 

 sized, midlong. 



This variety is very similar to Hard Federation, except that it has white 

 instead of brown glumes. The plant also is slightly taller and the kernels are 

 not quite as hard. It has proved to be a high-yielding wheat in California and 

 Oregon. 



History. — White Federation is of Australian origin, but as far as the 

 Waiters are aware its history has never been recorded in Australian literature. 

 The following sentence, however, indicates its origin : 



The seed (hard kernels selected from Federation by Mr. J. T. Pridham, from 

 which Hard Federation originated) was propagated, and in 1910 the occur- 

 rence of white heads was noticed, and from then until 1912 distinctly white 

 heads were common among the brown (SO, p. 664). 



The name White Federation has been used for the wheat at the Cowra 

 Experiment Farm, New South Wales, Australia, since 1915, when a field of 3 

 acres of the variety was grown (154). 



It was introduced into the United States by the United States Department 

 of Agriculture (197) in 1916 (S. P. I. No. 42104), when 5 ounces of seed 

 were presented by A. E. V. Richardson, agricultural superintendent of the 

 Department of Agriculture at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was first 

 grown in a 5-foot row in the classification nursery at the Sherman County 

 branch station, Moro, Oreg., in 1916. Since 1918 it has been grown at the Plant- 

 Introduction Garden, Chico, Calif., and because of its high yield at that point 

 it has been increased and distributed for commercial growing in California 

 (67, p. 24). 



Distribution. — Grown at experiment stations in California 1 , Washington, 

 Oregon, Idaho, and Utah and commercially in Butte County, Calif., in 1920. 



LYNN (LYNN BUST PROOF). 



Description. — Plant spring habit, midseason, midtall to' tall; stem white, 

 glaucous, strong, stout; spike awnless, linear-oblong, middense, erect; glumes 

 glabrous, yellowish white, midlong, midwide; shoulders narrow to midwide, 

 oblique to elevated ; beaks midwide, obtuse, 1 mm. long ; apical awns few, 2 to 

 15 mm. long; kernels white, short, semihard to hard, ovate; germ midsized; 

 crease midwide, deep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, midlong, collared. 



The variety differs from both Defiance and Surprise in having an oblong 

 spike and fairly hard kernels. The Lynn is resistant to some forms of stem 

 rust under California conditions. 



History. — This variety probably is a selection from Defiance or Surprise. 

 According to R. B. Luther, Templeton, Calif., Lynn (Lynn Rust Proof) was 

 first propagated by Lynn Brothers, of Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, 

 Calif. 



Distribution. — Grown in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., where it was 

 introduced about 1914. 



Synonyms. — Arizona No. 39, Pride of Oregon. According to W. E. Bryan, 

 plant breeder at the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, "Arizona No. 39 

 was selected originally from a field of soft wheat grown in the Yuma Valley 



