18 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
[A. 8.5189. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
BUREAU OF CROP ESTIMATES. 
WHEAT VARIETY SURVEY SCHEDULE. 
TO BE MAILED PROMPTLY. 
Wasuinoton, D. 0., March, 1919, 
Dear Sm: The Department of Agriculture wishes to learn more about the wheat crop and the changes thaf are taking place in 
varieties being grown. ¢ : ae ' 
To the wheat-growing indusiry this is very important. aay: schedule properly filled and prociptly returned will make the results 
of greater value. It is hoped that you will cooperate by filling the schedule as completely as possible and returning it in the inclosed 
envelope, which requires no postage.. P 
If you are unable to give the information asked, but know some one in the county who can, will you please refer this schedule to 
him. Ifno wheat is grown in your county, please return this schedule, writing acrossit ‘‘No wheat.”~ ~~ 
Respectfully, Fe ED 
P 7 LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief of Bureav. 
QUESTIONS. 
(Insert answers for your own community in tabular form below.) 
A. What wheat varieties are grown in your locality? 
B. What percentage of the total wheat acreage in your locality dees each variety represent? 
. Please describe the varieties named by writing in the columns below the proper word, as “Winter,” 
‘‘Spring,” or “Both,” and so on for head, chaff, and kernel characters. 
WHEAT VARIETIES. 
A : B ‘c 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
PRRCENTAGE ‘ ] $ 
NAME OF VARIETY. Bae PLANT. Heap, CHarr. ‘KERNEL. 
CRoP. ~ 
Winter or spring, Bearded or 
or both. . beardless. 
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Fic. 1.—A returned questionnaire of the wheat varietal survey. 
some. Others are only numbers, which sometimes are equally long 
and cumbersome or are easily confused. Because of this condition, 
a code of nomenclature was proposed by Ball and Clark (43), so 
that in this classification varietal names could be selected in ac- 
cordance with its rules. The code was presented to the American 
Society of Agronomy at its annual business meeting on November 
13, 1917. After a few minor changes were made by the committee 
on varietal nomenclature, it was adopted by the society (37) as 
follows: 
