CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 



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

 Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Okla- 

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

 The distribution is shown in Figure 41. 



Synonyms. — Gill, Golden Chaff, Pearl Prolific, Perfection, Prettybone, Prolific, 

 Red Odessa, Red Prolific, and Tennessee Prolific. 



Gill is a name used for Currell by growers in Kentucky. The name is also 

 used for the Poole variety in the same State. Golden Chaff is practically the 

 same if not entirely identical .with Currell. The origin of this variety is not 

 known. It has been grown by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station 

 since 1902 (83, p. 106-111). T. W. Wood & Sons, seedsmen, of Richmond, Va., 

 have advertised and distributed the variety in the Southeastern States since 

 about 1905. It has been reported from nearly all the States in which Currell 

 is grown. 



Pearl Prolific is probably a mispronunciation of the name Currell Prolific. 

 A sample of this variety obtained from the Cornell University station in 1912 

 proved to be identical with Currell. Pearl Prolific is grown in Alabama, Indi- 

 ana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. 

 Perfection is apparently identical with 

 Currell. It was grown by the Ohio Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station as early as 

 1895 (20Jf, p. 39). Perfection is grown 

 in Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 

 and Tennessee. Prettybone is the name 

 of a wheat almost identical with Currell 

 which was obtained in 1919 from Madi- 

 son County, N. C, where it had been 

 grown for at least four years. 



Prolific is a shortening of the name of 

 the variety as used by growers. Red 

 Odessa is the name under which a 

 sample of Currell was obtained from 

 Smiths Grove, Ky., in 1919. Red Prolific 

 is a name applied to Currell because of the color of the glumes. Tennessee 

 Prolific is a name used for the variety in Alabama. 















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Fig. 41. — Outline map of the east-central 

 United States, showing the distribution 

 of Currell wheat in 1919. Estimated 

 area, 645,000 acres. 



WINTER CHIEF. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, short; stem faintly purple, 

 strong; spike awnless, broadly oblong, middense, erect to nodding; glumes 

 glabrous, brown, long, midwide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks 

 wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 1 mm. long; apical awns several, 3 to 20 mm. long; ker- 

 nels red, midlong, soft, ovate to oval, frequently elliptical, flattened; germ 

 small ; crease midwide, middeep to deep ; cheeks usually rounded ; brush small 

 to midsized, midlong. 



Winter Chief differs from Poole principally in being shorter and having more 

 erect spikes. 



History. — The origin of Winter Chief is undetermined. A sample was ob- 

 tained from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913, which in 

 turn had received it from Everitt's O. K. Seed Store, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Distribution. — Winter Chief is not known to be commercially grown. 



