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History. — The origin of Bluechaff (Blue Chaff Calvert Club) was recorded, 29 

 by James Calvert, of Junction City, Oreg., as follows : 



My boy, A. C. Calvert, while shocking after me while I was binding, 24 years 

 ago this harvest, found seven heads of the wheat from one stalk. It looked so 

 much better, harder, and plumper wheat than any of the other wheat, that I 

 took it home and planted it in the garden and hoed it the same as we did the 

 corn, and it developed such plump heads and kernels of wheat that I kept on 

 until the seventh year, when we raised 750 bushels of wheat. 



Distribution. — Reported in 1919 from Jackson County, Oreg. It is known 

 to be or to have been grown in Benton, Linn, and Lane Counties, Oreg. 



DALE (DALE GLORIA) . 



Description. — Plant spring habit, midseason, short to midtall; stem purple, 

 strong, stout; spike awnless, elliptical, dense t erect; glumes glabrous, dark 

 brown, midlong, midwide ; shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique; beaks wide, 

 obtuse, 0.5 mm. long ; apical awns several, 3 to 20 mm. long ; kernels red, short 

 to midlong, soft, ovate, humped, pinched ; germ small ; crease narrow, shallow ; 

 cheeks rounded to angular ; brush small, midlong. 



This variety is distinguished by its red kernels and purple straw. Dale 

 (Dale Gloria), as commercially grown, usually is a mixture, the type described 

 above predominating. White-kerneled strains, having both white and brown 

 glumes, have been obtained from commercial fields. Spikes, glumes, and kernels 

 of this variety are shown in Plate LII, B. 



History. — The origin of Dale (Dale Gloria) wheat has been recorded by 

 Hunter (125), as follows: 



During the year 1900 Mr. William H. Dale, of Helix, Umatilla County, 

 Oreg., found a stool of wheat of eight heads growing among his other wheat. 

 He recognized the superior qualities of this individual plant, saved the seed, 

 and planted it by itself. The next year, 1901, he raised 4 pounds of seed. 

 In 1902 he raised 5 bushels, in 1903 there were 51 sacks, and in 1904, 4,000 

 bushels. Knowing no name for the variety he called it Dale Gloria. 



Distribution. — Grown in Umatilla County, Oreg., and Whitman County, 

 Wash. 



COPPEI. 



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

 spike awnless, oblong to elliptical, dense, erect ; glumes pubescent, white, mid- 

 long, midwide; shoulders narrow, usually oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 

 1 mm. long; apical awns several, 2 to 15 mm. long; kernels red, short to mid- 

 long, soft to semihard, ovate, humped; germ midsized; crease midwide, mid- 

 deep; cheeks rounded to angular; brush small, midlong. (PI. LIII, A.) 



History. — Coppei was developed by J. L. Harper, who, in the fall of 1907, 

 selected a plant of an unknown variety found in a field of Little Club belonging 

 to W. G. Preston, located near Coppei Creek, 3 miles south of Waitsburg, Wash. 

 Mr. Harper saved five heads from this plant and sowed the seed from them in 

 his garden in Waitsburg. In 1908 he thrashed from this plat about a pound of 

 wheat. This he gave to J. B. Kinder, a farmer, who increased the seed until 

 1911, when he distributed it to others. Mr. Harper named the variety Coppei 

 because it came from a farm near Coppei Creek. 30 The variety is probably the 

 result of a natural field cross between Little Club and Jones Fife. 



29 Correspondence with Ira P. Whitney, county agricultural agent, Eugene, Oreg., dated 

 Oct. 17, 1921. 



30 Correspondence from Prof. R. K. Bonnett, Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 dated July 24, 1920. 



