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is the name used by most growers in New York. Red Hussar is a name under 

 which this variety was obtained from the Cornell University Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. The true Red Hussar, however, is an awned variety. 

 Twentieth Century is the name used for the variety in Erie County, Ohio, where 

 it has been grown for 15 years or more. 



SQUAREHEADS MASTER. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, late, midtall; stem white, strong, stout; 

 spike awnless, clavate, dense, erect; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, wide; 

 shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, incurved, 1 mm. 

 long; apical awns few, 1 to 10 mm. long; kernels red, midlong, soft, broadly 

 ovate; germ small to midsized, abrupt; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks 

 rounded; brush large, midlong. Differs from Red Russian only in having 

 brown glumes. 



History. — The variety described above is found rather commonly as a mix- 

 ture in fields of the Red Russian variety in Idaho and Washington. Square- 

 heads Master is an English variety, and the history of its introduction to the 

 Pacific Northwest is not known. A sample introduced from England in 1911 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture is very similar to several se- 

 lections the writers have made of the mixtures in Red Russian fields in Wash- 

 ington and also to a selection from a field of Red Russian made by Glen. 

 Roundtree, Boistfort, Lewis County, Wash., who increased it and now has a 

 field of the variety. In England, Squareheads Master is reported to have 

 been selected by Mr. Teverson from Scholey's Squarehead, and is probably 

 the result of a natural cross between Scholey's and the Golden Drop (85; 155, 

 p. 33). 



Distribution. — Grown as a mixture in fields of other varieties in California, 

 Idaho, and Washington, and in pure culture to a very limited extent in Lewis 

 County, Wash. 



Synonyms. — Australian Club, Brown Squarehead, Redchaff Red Russian. 

 Australian Club is the name which was first used for the Brown Squarehead 

 wheat by Mr. Roundtree. Brown Squarehead and Redchaff Red Russian have 

 been used as names to describe the wheat where it occurs as mixtures, because 

 it differs from the Squarehead and Red Russian varieties principally in glume 

 color. 



CURRELL ( CURRELL' S PROLIFIC ). 



Description. — Plant«r winter habit, early, midtall ; stem usually purple, mid- 

 strong ; spike awnless, fusiform, middense, inclined ; glumes glabrous, brown, 

 midlong, narrow to midwide, shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks 

 usually wide, sometimes nearly wanting, 0.5 mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 

 10 mm. long; kernels dull red, short to midlong, soft, ovate; germ midsized; 

 crease narrow to midwide, shallow to middeep, distinctly triangular ; cheeks 

 usually rounded ; brush small, midlong. 



Currell is distinguished from other varieties in this group of -purple-strawed 

 wheats by its slender spike. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of this variety are 

 shown in Plate XXVIII, A. 



History. — The history of Currell (Currell's Prolific) has been recorded by 

 Carleton (61, p. 202) as follows: 



Currell Prolific wheat was selected by Mr. W. E. Currell, of Virginia, from 

 a field of Fultz in 1881. The original seed was from three spikes. It was first 

 sold for seed in 1884. 



