THE WHEAT CULTrEIST. 



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The Pedi&eee T^'heat. 



This celebrated variety of wheat, which caused so mncli 

 siu'prise among the tanners of America a few years 

 ago, is a winter variety ; and one of the heads is rep 

 resented by the accompanying illustration , > 

 as the heads appeared before the variety |.\ 

 had been improved by jndicions selection 

 of seed from year to year in connection with 

 thorough cultivation on a rich soil adapted 

 to this kind of grain. I have had one of 

 the original heads engraved, for the pur- 

 pose of showing how grain may be im- 

 proved. 



The heads are not smooth and beautiful, 

 like many of our popular varieties ; and 

 there is nothing remarkable about the 

 variety, any more than there would be in 

 any of the choice varieties of winter wheat 

 that are now raised in various parts of the 

 United States. 



This Pedigree ^heat was a very prolitic 

 variety ; and had the samples which were 

 sown been cultivated on rich wheat soil, 

 this variety would, doubtless, have proved 

 one of the choicest varieties of Avheat that 

 was ever cultivated in America. This A^a- 

 riety was defective in one very important 

 respect, namely, the grain was liable to shell 

 out easily, when the crop was not harvested 

 before the wheat was dead ripe. The grain 

 made excellent flour, and there was a small 

 percentage of bran. 



Fig. 12. 

 Hallefs Pedigree 

 wheat. 



