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probably be generally treated as such, and will, no doubt, thrive better in new 
localities after it becomes acclimated by one or two Seasons’ growth. ... The 
best successes of my customers are also My own, and the whole wheat crop | 
of America will seon be enormously increased if this new “ Burbank” wheat’ 
is generally sown. 
This, like all other wheats grown in California, is a winter wheat and should 
The wheat was further advertised and distributed as Super wheat in 1917 
and 1918 by Mr. Burbank. Apparently most of his steck was purchased and | 
resold by the State Seed & Nursery Co., of Helena, Mont., at the price of $5 
per pound. They advertised it as a wheat adapted for both spring and fall | 
sowing. It was distributed, therefore, in many sections where it was not | 
adapted. East of the Rocky Mountains it generally winterkiiled when fail sown | 
and remained prostrate on the ground throughout the growing season when | 
spring sown, thus resulting in failure. Its distribution, therefore, probably | 
now is limited to the Pacific coast and the Intermountain areas. It was not | 
reported in the varietal survey of 1919. The writers have found Super wheat 
to be identical with Jones Fife in all taxonomic characters, as well as in yield | 
and in milling and baking quality. 
Canadian Hybrid is similar to Jones Fife, except that it sometimes has a | 
slightly longer and laxer spike. It was listed by John A. Salzer, seedsman, of | 
La Crosse, Wis., as early as 1895. Concerning it he states that “it originated | 
in Canada, on the farm of Clark Parker, through crossing, or in the words of | 
the grower, ‘I have long had the best crops cf winter wheat in my secticn. I | 
would take the best specimens of different sorts, and plant them together, and 
thus continuously improve my yield. Now, I can not call any of these sorts 
pure, because obtained as above, but can call the Canadian Hybrid enormously | 
productive.” (163, p. 16, 1900.) It was reported grown in Iliinois, Indiana, | 
Michigan, and Missouri. 
Crail Fife is a local name applied to Jones Fife wheat in Montana, Frank | 
Crail, of Bozeman, Mont., being the farmer who grew and distributed the 
variety under that name. Fishhead is a wheat similar to Jones Fife, samples 
of which have been obtained from the Corneli University Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station. Silver King is a name used for Jones Fife in Colorado and | 
Wyoming. According to J. B. Hill, of. Westridge, Colo., if has been grown in | 
that vicinity for 16 or 18 years. The name Velvet Chaff has been used for 
Jones Fife, as for several other varieties, by many growers. Winter Fife, a 
part of the original name, often is used by growers to distinguish it from the 
well-known spring wheat called Fife. 
HAYNES BLUESTEM. 
Description.—Plant spring habit, late, midtall to tall; stem white, glaucous 
before maturity, midstrong to strong; spike awnless, narrowly fusiform, mid- 
dense to iax, inclined: glumes pubescent, white, short, midlong, narrow, often 
shattering: shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks midwide, obtuse, 0.5 
mm. long; apical awns few, 8 to 15 mm. long; kernels red, short to midlong, | 
hard, ovate; germ midsized: crease narrow, middeep to deep; cheeks rounded; | 
brush midsize, midlong to long. 
This variety is distinct among the hard spring-wheat varieties because of be- { 
ing pubescent. It is very susceptible to stem rust. When rust is not present 
it yieids well under humid conditions. It is an excellent miliing and bread-— 
making wheat. Spikes, gliames, and Kernels of Haynes Bluestem are shown 
in Plate XXXIII, A. | 
History.—Haynes Bluestem was first developed through selection by L. HL 
Haynes (107), of Fargo, N. Dak., about 1895. He recorded the following in- 
formation concerning its previous origin ard his work toward its improvement: 
