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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Distribution. — Grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, 

 Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, 

 Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee. Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and 

 Wisconsin. The distribution is shown in Figure 31. 



Synonyms. — Ber Ban. Bluestem, Bluestem Fulta Economy, Everitt's High 

 Grade, Grains o'Gold, Halver, Hickman, High Grade, Improved English, Im- 

 proved Fultz, Jersey Fultz, Little Eed Jersey, McKennon, New Economy, 

 Nixon, Perpetuated Fultz, Roosevelt, Rust Proof, Shamrock, Slickhead, 

 Tennessee Fultz, Tipton Red, and Winter Pearl. 



Ber Ban is a name used for Fultz wheat in Campbell County, Tenn. Blue- 

 stem and Bluestem Fultz are names often nsed by farmers for Fultz wheat 

 in the Ohio Valley, where the variety is extensively grown. Economy is 



the name under which a sample 

 of wheat similar to Fultz was ob- 

 tained in 1912 from the Cornell 

 University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, A variety was 

 grown under this name by the Ohio 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 

 as early as 1900. Its further his- 

 tory is undetermined. It is grown 

 under this name in Kentucky, Ohio, 

 and Virginia. New Economy is 

 grown in Tennessee and may have 

 the same or a different origin. 

 Everitt's High Grade and High 

 Grade are names first used for 

 Fultz by J. A. Everitt in 1886, 

 while a seedsman at Watertown, 

 Pa. When distributed, the state- 

 ment was made that it was a cross 

 of " Martin's Amber on a number 

 of other varieties." This statement 

 attracted considerable comment at 

 the time (20, p. 706), and as the crossing was begun only four years previous 

 to distribution it was shown that the statement was absurd and that the wheat 

 distributed was principally the Fultz variety mixed with several other wheats. 

 The firm, however, continued to advertise and sell the wheat, but it was later 

 advertised as " Everitt's High Grade, or Perpetuated Fultz." High Grade and 

 Everitt's High Grade were reported grown in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mary- 

 land, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. 

 Grains o'Gold also was in part Fultz wheat distributed by J. A. Everitt from 

 his O. K. Seed Store, Indianapolis, Ind. It apparently was a mixture of Fultz, 

 Gipsy, and several other varieties. It was reported grown in Kentucky, Mis- 

 souri, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Halver and Roosevelt are names 

 used for a wheat very similar to Fultz in Pike and Gibson Counties, Ind., where 

 it has been grown for six years in the vicinity of Stendal. One sample differed 

 from Fultz in having a laxer and thicker spike which nodded. Hickman is 

 the name of a variety similar to Fultz, the origin of which is undetermined. 

 It was grown by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station for the first time 

 in 1892. It possibly is a strain of Fultz wheat named for Prof. J. Fremont 

 Hickman, form-er agronomist at the Ohio station, after his death. It is grown 



Fig. 31. — Outline map of a portion of the 

 United States, showing the distribution of 

 Fultz wheat in 1919. Estimated area, 4,- 

 801,100 acres. 



