CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 149 



in experiments by the Agronomy Department of the Kansas station, and several 

 of them, including Kanred, were grown in field plats. In 1916 it was discovered 

 to be rust resistant. During these years of preliminary testing of the Kanred 

 wheat it was known by the number P-762. In 1917 it was named Kanred (a 

 contraction of Kansas Red). About 4,000 acres were seeded to this variety in 

 the fall of 1917, more than 50,000 acres in the fall of 1918, and not less than 

 500,000 acres in the fall of 1919. 



Distribution. — Kanred was reported in 1919 from 23 counties in Kansas, 1 

 county in Michigan, and 5 counties in Oklahoma. (Fig. 58.) Probably 

 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 acres were sown to Kanred in the fall of 1920. It is 

 grown also at experiment stations in most sections of the United States. 



Synonyms.— P-762, P-1066, and P-1068. P-762, as shown above, was the 

 designation under which Kanred wheat was known from the date of its selec- 

 tion, in 1906, until the time when it was named. P-1066 and P-1068 are two 

 other pure-line selections developed at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station in much the same way as was Kanred. Both these strains have the 

 rust resistance of Kanred and are identical in all mor- 

 phological characters, but neither has been distributed 

 for commercial growing. 



BELOGLINA. 



Description. — This variety is nearly identical with 

 Kanred, except that it is slightly later and does not have 

 the resistance of that variety to stem and leaf rust. Pl °" J^^^S^rtp 



History. — Beloglina was introduced from Russia by trai United States, 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. Four showing the distri- 

 introductions have been made. The first lot was ob- button of Kanred 

 tained by M. A. Carleton in 1900 from Rostov on Don, mated ^a^a' 9 ' 97500 

 Russia (197, S. P. I. No. 6012), where it was claimed acres, 

 to have been one of the most hardy red winter wheats 



known. It was grown near Beloglinskaya, in the northern portion of the 

 Stavropol Government, a region of great extremes of temperature and moisture. 

 This wheat has proved somewhat more winter hardy than commercial strains 

 of Turkey and Kharkof, but not enough so to make it become an important 

 variety. 



Distribution. — This variety is not known to be grown commercially, but is 

 grown at many experiment stations in the western United States. 



bacska. i 



Description, — The Bacska wheat grown in Wisconsin is very similar to 

 Kanred, except that it is slightly taller and later and does not have the 

 resistance of Kanred to stem and leaf rust. 



History. — The original Bacska wheat (197, S. P. I. No. 5498) was introduced 

 from Budapest, Austria-Hungary, in 1900 by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. A pure-line selection made from the original introduction by 

 E. J. Delwiche, of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station at Ashland, 

 Wis., is the only Bacska wheat now known to be commercially grown. It is 

 sometimes called Wisconsin Pedigree No. 408. 



Distribution. — This variety was reported in 1919 from Bayfield and Price 

 Counties, Wis., where it made up 17 and 2 per cent of the wheat acreage, 

 respectively. 



Synonym. — Wisconsin Pedigree No. 408. 



