CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 207 



With regard to this variety of wheat, Doctor Hoskins of Orleans County, Vt, 

 writes us : "I was one of the very first to plant it in Vermont, having, with 

 three others in different parts of the State, four years ago received a quart of 

 it from Rev. Marcus A. Keep, of Dalton, Aroostook County, Me. I got a bushel 

 from the quart, sowed it all and distributed the 26 bushels that grew from it 

 among my neighbors, and now it is the principal wheat in the vicinity." 



Minnesota Wonder and Early Wonder are names used for a mix- 

 ture of Kinney, Huston, and Defiance, grown in the Willamette Val- 

 ley of Oregon. 



Rio Grande is a bearded spring wheat which was reported grown 

 in Wisconsin as early as 1853. Concerning it De Neven (78, p. 148) 

 has recorded the following information : 



" The Rio Grande " wheat was introduced among us more recently than the 

 " Canada Club." * * * It was brought into Illinois by an Englishman, a 

 soldier in the Mexican War, who carried from the banks of the Rio Grande a 

 handful in his knapsack and sowed it in his garden, from which my seed was 

 derived. * * * It grows very tall, having the ears furnished with long 

 beards and, altogether, when standing in the field, it strongly resembles the 

 " Black Sea " variety, only the straw is somewhat larger, if not longer. 



In 1896 Hays (108, p. 322) discussed its probable value for Minne- 

 sota, as follows : 



University No. 72, Rio Grande, has been grown by the experiment station 

 for a number of years. It is a medium-sized plant, bearded, chaff is smooth, 

 white, and holds tightly to the berry. The berry has much the same appearance 

 as the Red Fife, but has usually graded one grade below Fife grown beside it. 

 As it is bearded, hardly as good a yielder as Fife and Bluestem, and not able 

 to secure as good grades, this variety will hardly compete with the standard 

 sorts. This wheat at times has seemed especially susceptible to the effects of 

 rust. 



Sea Island is a spring wheat which was quite commonly grown in 

 Nebraska during the nineties, but which has now nearly gone out of 

 cultivation. The origin of the variety is undetermined. A sample 

 was obtained from Colorado in 1919, but it was badly mixed, contain- 

 ing at least five distinct types, so its correct identity could not be de- 

 termined. 



White Leader or Early White Leader is a variety listed on the 

 stationery of A. N. Jones, of Newark, Wayne County, N. Y., where 

 he claims to have originated it in 1893. Nothing further is known 

 concerning it. 



ESTIMATED ACREAGE OF VARIETIES. 



The varietal survey, previously mentioned, has furnished a basis 

 for estimating the actual and percentage acreages of the different 

 varieties (Tables 2 and 3). In compiling Table 2 all estimated per- 

 centage acreages from all reports from a county were totaled and 

 the average percentage which each variety represented in the wheat 



