CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 87 
A wheat of unknown characters was obtained under that name by the United 
States Department of Agriculture in 1902 from William Rennie, seedsman, of 
Toronto, Canada. WHarly Ontario was not reported in our varietal survey. 
Economy is a name used on farms for Fultzo-Mediterranean, as well as for the 
Fultz variety. Farmers Pride is a local name used for Fultzo-Mediterranean 
in Missouri. 
Four-Row Fultz is a name under which Fultzo-Mediterranean was adver- 
tised and sold by A. H. Hoffman, seedsman, of Landisville, Pa. Our sample 
from that source was obtained in 1918. Four-Row Fultz was reported grown 
in Pennsylvania. 
Scott’s Squarehead is the name under which a sample of wheat similar to 
Fultzo-Mediterranean was obtained from the Kansas Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station in 1916. Its further history is undetermined and it was not 
reported in the survey. 
KINNEY. 
Description.—Plant spring habit, late, midtall; stem very glaucous before 
maturity, white, strong; spike awnless, oblong, middense, erect to inclined; 
glumes glabrous, white, midlong, wide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; 
beaks wide, acute, 1.0 mm. long; apical awns several, 3 to 20 mm. long; 
kernels red, usually short, soft, broadly ovate, humped; germ m:dsized; crease 
midwide to wide, shallow to middeep; cheeks usually angular; brush mid- 
sized, midlong. 
This variety is distinct from most others in being very glaucous during its 
growing period. It is a hardy spring wheat and is grown from both fall and 
spring seeding in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. 
History—According to H. Barendrick, of the Albina Fuel Co., Portland, 
Oreg., Kinney wheat was introduced into the Willamette Valley of Oregon 
from France in the late sixties or early seventies by Albert Kinney, son of 
Robert Kinney, who operated a flour mill in that section. Albert Kinney was 
selling flour for his father in France, and introduced the wheat, which later 
became known ay Kinney, because he thought that it would be a better milling 
wheat than the varieties then grown in the Willamette Valley. This did not 
prove to be the case, however, and many people found fault with the miller 
later when the wheat was found to be of rather inferior milling quality and 
brought a slightly lower price than White Winter, the variety most commonly 
grown. Nothing is known concerning the French name for the Kinney variety. 
Distribution—Grown in Benton, Lane, Linn, Marion, Polk, and Washington 
Counties, Oreg. 
Synonyms.—Noah Island, Odessa, Surprise. These are names recorded by 
Hyslop (126, p. 674) as synonyms used for Kinney wheat in the Willamette 
Valley of Oregon. 
PURPLESTRAW. 
,Description.—Plant spring habit, early, midtall; stem purple, midstrong; 
spike awnless, fusiform, middense, inclined to nodding; glumes glabrous, white, 
short to midlong, midwide; shoulders narrow to midwide, oblique to square; 
beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 1.0 mm. long; apical awns several, 3 to 10 mm. 
long; kernels red, short to midlong, soft, ovate or sometimes nearly oval; 
germ midsized; crease midwide, shallow to middeep; cheeks usually rounded; 
brush small to midsized, midlong. 
