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



The Pererodka variety was grown in experiments for a number of years in 

 the northern Great Plains and appeared to be identical with Kubanka in all 

 respects. 



Taganrog (197, S. P. I. No. 5355) is the name under which a wheat similar 

 to Kubanka was obtained from Marseilles, France, in 1900, by W. T. Swingle, 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. This is not a varietal name 

 in France, but rather the name of a port of Russia, and the sample intro- 

 duced was probably a bulk lot of seed shipped from Taganrog. 



Yellow Gharnovka (197, S. P. I. No. 5642) has the same history as Ghar- 

 novka discussed above. 



KUBANKA NO. 8. 



Description. — Kubanka No. 8 is a selection from Kubanka, identical in ap- 

 pearance but a better yielder in western North Dakota. It is much more 

 susceptible to stem rust than the unselected Kubanka and principally for that 

 reason has not yielded well over a wider area. 



History. — Kubanka No. 8 (C. I. No. 4063) is a pure-line selection from 

 Kubanka (C. I. No. 1440) made in 1906 by Prof. L. R. Waldron, now of the 

 North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, at the Dickinson Substation, 

 Dickinson, N. Dak., where it proved to be a high-yielding strain (64, p. 17). 



Distribution. — It was distributed to growers in the vicinity of Dickinson 

 as early as 1911, and has been grown commercially since in western North 

 Dakota and at most experiment stations in the northern Great Plains area. 



Description. — Buford is similar to Kubanka, except that it has a slightly 

 narrower and laxer spike. It proved to be a high-yielding variety at the Wil- 

 liston substation, Williston, N. Dak., but it has a gluten of poor quality, as 

 shown by a small loaf volume. 



History. — Buford is the result of a pure-line selection made by F. R. Babcock, 

 a representative of the United States Department of Agriculture, at the Willis- 

 ton substation, Williston, N. Dak., in 1909. This selection was made from a 

 plat of Taganrog. It was first grown in plat experiments in 1913, when it out- 

 yielded all other varieties grown. It continued to yield well and in 1917 was 

 given the name Buford, from the Buford-Trenton Reclamation Project, on which 

 the Williston substation is located, and was distributed (42, p. 46). 



Distribution. — Grown in Williams and Divide Counties, N. Dak., and in 

 Montana. 



MABOTJANI. 



Description. — Plant spring habit, midseason, very tall; stem white, weak; 

 spike awned, broadly oblong, dense, nodding ; glumes glabrous, yellowish, mid- 

 long, wide ; shoulders narrow, usually elevated ; beaks wide, 1 to 15 mm. long : 

 awns yellowish, 8 to 20 mm. long; kernels white (amber), very long, hard, 

 elliptical, humped; germ large; crease midwide, shallow to middeep; cheeks 

 angular; brush small, short. 



History.— Marouani wheat (197, S. P. I. No. 7578) was introduced from the 

 Province of Oran, Algeria, in 1901, through D. G. Fairchild and C. S. 

 Scofield, for the United States Department of Agriculture. Concerning the in- 

 troduction, they have written as follows : 



This wheat is cultivated extensively on the elevated rolling lands in the 

 western part of the Province and is one of the best of the types of durum wheats 

 cultivated by the Arabs. The quantity obtained is from the estate of M. J. 



