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the wheat by Mr. Jones, that being its trial-bed number, and later used by him 
as a synonym for American Bronze. Red Victory is a name applied to Pros- 
perity by J. B. Barton, Otsego, Mich., who states that it constitutes 50 per cent 
of the wheat being grown near Otsego, Ailegan County, Mich. He wrote the 
Cffice of Cereal Investigations concerning it as follows: 
T bought the seed four years ago and the farmer brought it to this locality from 
about 45 miles north of me. The man ] got it of did not know what it was, and 
the man he got it from did not know. Before it matured the first crop for me 
I thought it was Fultz, but as it matured I thought not, so I sent six heads to 
Lansing to the Michigan Agricuitural Coilege, and asked them to name it. They 
wrote me it was not Fultz, nor did it belong to the Fultz family, and I had 
a mighty good wheat, and I could name it just as well as they could. I sold ali 
my 1918 crop for seed and, it being in the midst of the Great War, I gave it the 
name of Red Victory. : 
Silver Chaff is a name used for the Prosperity variety in New York and other 
Eastern States. As the name also is used for Martin wheat in this section, the 
distribution of the two varieties under this name is confused. Twentieth Cen- 
tury is a name used for Prosperity in Monroe County, Ohio, where it constitutes 
about 25 per cent of the wheat grown in the vicinity of Kuhn. Zinn’s Golden is 
used for Prosperity wheat in Barbour, Braxton, and Upshur Counties, W. Va. 
Concerning the origin of the name, B. C. Rodibough, of Hall, W. Va., has written 
as follows: 
It seems to have originated in Barbour County, W. Va., on the farm of a man © 
by the name of Zinn, and has been grown in this locality quite extensively for 
about 15 years. 
FORWARD. 
- Description —This variety has not been grown by the writers. Spike samples 
furnished by Dr. H. H. Love show that it is somewhat similar to Prosperity, but 
differs in having slightly narrower and more nearly fusiform spikes and in- 
curved apical awns. 
History.—Forward was originated by the plant-breeding department of the 
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y., in cooperation 
with the Office of Cereal Investigations, United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. During the experimental stages it was known as Cornell Selection 123-82. 
Concerning the variety, Dr. Love, who is in charge of the cooperative experi- 
ments at Cornell, has written as follews:™ 
The Forward is a white chaff, beardless, red-kerneled wheat selected out of 
a commercial lot of Fulcaster and under test has proved to be winter hardy 
and a good yielder. It has outyielded Fuleaster and bids fair to be one of our 
best red-kerneled sorts. 
Distribution.—Forward was first distributed for commercial growing in New 
York in the fall of 1920. 
SQUAREHEAD. 
Description.—Plant winter habit, late, tall; stem white, coarse, strong; spike 
awnless, linear-clavate, middense, erect to inclined; glumes glabrous, white, 
midlong, wide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; keel incurved above; 
beaks wide, obtuse, 1 mm. long; apical awns few, 1 to 10 mm. long; kernels 
red, midlong, soft, ovate, sometimes broadly ovate; germ small to midsized; 
crease wide, deep; cheeks usually rounded; brush midsized, midlong to long. 
This and the similar varieties, Red Russian and Sol, are distinct in being very 
late-maturing winter wheats and in having a very dense clavate spike and strong 
straw. They are adapted for growing only in mild humid sections. Their mill- 
’ 4 Correspondence of the Office of Cereal Investigations, dated Mar. 19, 1921. 
