CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 



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Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, 

 Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. This distribution 

 is shown in Figure 57. 



Synonyms. — Alberta Red, Argentine, Bulgarian, Crimean, Defiance, Egyptian, 

 Hard Winter, Hundred-and-One, Hungarian, Improved Turkey, Kharkof, Lost 

 Freight, Malcome, Malakof, Minnesota Red Cross, Minnesota Reliable, Pioneer 

 Turkey, Red Russian, Red Winter, Romanella, Russian, Tauranian, Theiss, 

 Turkey Red, Turkish Red, Ulta, Wisconsin No. 18, Worlds Champion. 



Alberta Red is a name which was originally given a lot of Turkey wheat 

 grown about 20 miles from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1906. Selections of 

 heads of the variety were made under the direction of W. M. Gilfoy, manager 

 of the Calgary Milling Co. An extra good sample was thus obtained, which 



Fig. 57. — Outline map of the United States, showing the distribution of Turkey wheat in 

 1919. Estimated area, 21^8,300 acres. 



was distributed under the name Alberta Red. Argentine is a name under 

 which a strain of Turkey wheat has been grown at the Sherman County branch 

 station, Moro, Oreg., for a number of years. In the experiments there it has 

 proved to be one of the highest yielding strains of Crimean wheat. The wheat 

 was obtained on the stock exchange, Marseilles, France, in 1900, by W. T. 

 Swingle, of the Department of Agriculture (197, S. P. I. No. 5354). It is 

 recorded as being one of a collection of different types of macaroni wheat, but 

 this particular lot proved to be common wheat of the Turkey type. Bulgarian 

 is a name under which a sample of Turkey wheat was obtained from the 

 Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913. 



Crimean is the name properly used for this whole group of hard red winter 

 wheats. It also has been used as a varietal name for separate introductions. 

 The first introduction of the wheat under this name is thought to have been 

 made by Carleton in 1900 (197, S. P. I. No. 5635) from Kurman-Kemelchi, Cen- 

 tral Crimea, Russia. Defiance is a name under which a lot of Turkey wheat 

 was distributed by the Iowa Seed Co., of Des Moines, Iowa. It was advertised 

 as their novelty of 1900, which was the first year the name was applied to a 

 hard red winter wheat. Egyptian is a name sometimes used for Turkey, as 

 well as other varieties. A sample of Turkey under this name was obtained 

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