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BULLETIN 1074, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Distribution. — Grown as Leap's Prolific in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, 

 Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New 

 York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, 

 and West Virginia. The distribution is shown in Figure 25. 



Synonyms. — Hastings Prolific, Woods Prolific, and Woolf. Hastings Pro- 

 lific is a name used for Leap wheat in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. 

 Woods Prolific is used for the variety in Tennessee and Virginia. These names 

 probably are derived from the names of the seed firms selling it. Woolf is 

 a name used for the Leap variety in Muhlenberg County, Ky. 



ONTAEIO WONDEE. 



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

 midstrong; spike awnless, fusiform, middense, nodding; glumes glabrous, 

 white, midlong, narrow; shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique to rounded; 

 beaks wide, obtuse, 1.0 mm. long ; apical awns few, 3 to 10 mm. long ; kernels 

 pale red, midlong, soft, ovate; germ small to midsized; crease midwide, mid- 

 deep ; cheeks angular to rounded ; brush midsized, midlong. 

 History. — This is a Canadian variety of undetermined origin. The variety 



was grown in the United States by the 

 Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station as 

 early as 1888 (113, p, 28). 



Distribution. — So far as known this 

 variety is grown only experimentally in the 

 United States, although it is commercially 

 grown in Ontario. 



ZIMMERMAN. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, early, 

 midtall; stem white, strong; spikes awn- 

 less, oblong-fusiform, middense, erect to in- 

 Fig. 25.— Outline map of a portion of clined ; glumes glabrous, white, short, mid- 

 the eastern United States, showing wide; shoulders midwide, oblique to 

 the distribution of Leap wheat in square ; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 mm. long; 

 1919. Estimated area, 513,100 acres. . „ , ...-. , , , 



' ' apical awns few, 3 to 10 mm. long; kernels 



pale red, usually short, soft, ovate; germ small to midsized; crease midwide, 

 middeep; cheeks rounded; brush small, midlong. 



This variety is quite similar to Fultz, but differs principally in being slightly 

 earlier and having white straw and a smaller kernel. 



History. — Zimmerman is reported to have been originated about 1837 near 

 Frederick, Md., by Henry Zimmerman, who noticed three heads of singular 

 appearance near the edge of one of his wheat fields. They were saved, the 

 seed' sown and increased, and at the end of the sixth year he had over 60 

 bushels; in the seventh year the wheat was sold to the public (118). The 

 kernel is described as " of a rich yellow." This might indicate that it was 

 a white-kerneled wheat. From 1847 to 1850 the name " Zimmerman " was ap- 

 plied in literature to both a white and a red wheat. References to red-kerneled 

 Zimmerman wheat in the fifties show it was quite widely grown in Maryland, 

 Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and by the early nineties it was an important 

 wheat in eastern Kansas, where it is still grown. 



Distribution. — Grown sparingly in eastern Kansas and in Missouri. 



