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BULLETIN 
S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
This variety differs from Hard Federation principally in having 
white instead of brown glumes, in being slightly taller, in having 
firmer glumes, thus being less easily shattered, and in having slightly 
softer kernels and possibly a greater capacity for yield under favor- 
able conditions. 
PLAT EXPERIMENTS. 
The Hard Federation variety has been grown in plats at Moro, 
Oreg., and Chico, Calif., during two years, 1918 and 1919. The 
Federation was grown at Moro in 1918 and 1919, and White Federa- 
tion only in 1919. White Federation was grown at Chico in 1918 
and 1919, but Federation only in 1919. Other Australian varieties 
have been grown at both stations for longer periods. The principal 
results obtained in these experiments, with commercial varieties 
included for comparison, are given in Tables II to V. 
RESULTS AT MORO. 
In the Columbia Basin of Oregon the principal spring wheat 
varieties are Early Baart, Pacific Bluestem, and Marquis. The 
latter is a hard red wheat. The principal winter varieties in the 
drier parts of this section are Turkey and Kharkof , which are similar 
hard red wheats, and Fortyfold, which is a soft white wheat. All of 
these have been grown in the plat experiments at the Sherman 
County Branch Station. Of these, Early Baart and Pacific Blue- 
stem are of Australian origin. The Bobs, another Australian variety, 
has been grown in plats since 1914. The annual and average yields 
of these varieties are shown in Table II, with a percentage comparison 
for the same station years, using the yield of Pacific Bluestem as 
100 per cent. 
Table II. — Yield of three varieties of Australian and four other important varieties of 
wheat compared with Pacific Bluestem as grown in the plat experiments at the Sherman 
County Branch Station, Mow, Oreg., during the 9-year period from 1911 to 1919, 
inclusive. 
[The three Australian varieties are each designated, by an asterisk (*).] 
Variety. 
Yield per acre fbushe's ). 
Per- 
cent- 
ase of 
Pa- 
cific 
Blue- 
stem. 
Class and name. 
C.I. 
No. 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
191S 
Average. 
1911 
to 
1919 
Pacific 
Bluestem 
compari- 
son. 
Spring wheat: 
*Pacifie Bluestem 
*Earlv Baart 
*Bobs 
Marquis 
Winter wheat: 
Kharkof 
Turkey nocal).... 
Fortyfold 
4067 
1697 
2S26-1 
4158 
1442 
4429 
4156 
11.7 
14.5 
20.2 
19.0 
19.4 
25.0 
22.1 
27. 6 a24. 
14 2 »24. 
17.5 21.6 
20.9 
26.0 
24.7 
22. 5 
24.0 
22.5 
19.7 
24.0 
26.6 
25.4 
23.1 
21.3 
21.3 
26.5 
37.3 
40.9 
45. 5 
37.0 
52. 3 
50.8 
38. 
17.5 
19.4 
23. 3 
20.8 
24.3 
22.3 
21.8 
13.0 
14.9 
• " 
15.0 
£>26.2 
27.3 
25.9 
23 
24.2 
26.3 
22.7 
640.0 
36.6 
26.2 
20.9 
23.3 
27.3 
25.3 
22.2 
+2.5±0.5 
+4.6+0.7 
+ 1.2±0.5 
+6. 5±1. 7 
4-4. 5± 1.8 
+ 1.4±1. 1 
100 
112.1 
120.1 
104.7 
131 
121 
106 
i Yield of Turkey, C I. No. 1558. substituted. 
>> Yield of Selection No. 12 from Kharkof, C I. No. 1442, substituted. 
