134 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Synonyms. — Defiance, Egyptian, Farmers Friend, Golden Straw, Grains o'Gold, 

 Gipsy Queen, Lebanon, Niagara, and Reliable. 



Defiance is the name under which a wheat practically identical with Gipsy 

 was obtained from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913. It 

 is probable that this name became wrongly applied to this wheat, as the writers 

 are not able to find any other record of such application. Egyptian is a name 

 frequently used by farmers for the Gipsy variety. Farmers Friend is the name 

 which has been applied to Gipsy wheat, as well as several other varieties. A 

 sample of Farmers Friend obtained from the Wisconsin station in 1917 as Wis- 

 consin No. 55 proved to be a mixture of Gipsy and Fulcaster. Golden Straw 

 is the name used for a sample of Gipsy wheat obtained from Kansas in 1919. 

 Grains o'Gold is a name applied to a mixed lot of wheat by the J. A. Everitt 

 Seed Co. (O. K. Seed Store), Indianapolis, Ind., and distributed about 1912. 

 They stated it was originated by E. K. Adams, of Allendale, 111. 21 Our samples 

 of this wheat contained a considerable proportion of Gipsy with admixtures 

 of Fulcaster, Fultz, and Fultzo-Mediterranean. It was 

 reported in 1919 from Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Ten- 

 nessee, and West Virginia. 



Gipsy Queen is a name used for Gipsy in Indiana. 

 Lebanon is a wheat similar to Gipsy, though it appears 

 to have a slightly harder kernel. Its origin is undeter- 

 Fig. 54.— Outline map of mined< It has been grown by the 0hio Agricultural 

 a portion of the central 



United States, show- Experiment Station since about 1893 (20£ p. 39). The 

 ing the distribution of name Lebanon is used for other varieties of wheat, one 

 Valley wheat in 1919. of which is identical with Mediterranean and another is 

 Estimated area, 5,200 very s i m ii ar t0 Mammoth Amber. Niagara is the name 

 under which a sample of Gipsy was obtained from Hud- 

 sonville, Mich., in 1919. Reliable is a wheat of undetermined origin, practically 

 identical with Gipsy. It was grown by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion as early as 1888 (81, p. 29). It was reported in 1919 from Michigan and 

 Pennsylvania. 



Description. — Valley differs from Gipsy only in being taller, slightly earlier, 

 and having slightly longer spikes and glumes. Photographs of a spike, glumes, 

 and kernels of Valley are shown in Plate XXXVII, B. 



History. — Valley was obtained by the Ohio station from Elias Tetter, Pleasant 

 Plain, Ohio, in 1883, and grown by them for the first time in 1884 (81, p. 35). 

 It is " said to have originated in the Scioto Valley, Ohio " (Ilk-, p. 3). 



Distribution. — Grown in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and under synonyms in 

 Kansas and Texas. This distribution is shown in Figure 54. 



Synonyms. — German Amber, Indiana Swamp, Niagara, Russian Amber, and 

 Rust Proof. 



German Amber is a name used for Valley in Cherokee County, Kans. Indiana 

 Swamp is a name under which a sample of wheat very similar to Valley was 

 obtained from the Illinois station in 1913. A wheat under that name was grown 

 by them as early as 1902. The Everitt O. K. Seed Store advertised Indiana 

 Swamp wheat in 1899, stating that it was of the Mediterranean type. The 

 name Swamp is also used for several other varieties. Indiana Swamp was 

 reported in 1919 from Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, but most of the wheat 

 so reported evidently was Mediterranean. Niagara is the name of a wheat 

 obtained from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913. which is 



21 Correspondence with the Office of Cereal Investigations, dated Sept. 26, 1912. 



