134 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Synonyms.—Defiance, Egyptian, Farmers Friend, Golden Straw, Grains o’Gold, 
Gipsy Queen, Lebanon, Niagara, and Reliable. | 
Defiance is the name under which a wheat practically identical with Gipsy 
was obtained from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913. It) 
is probable that this name became wrongly applied to this wheat, as the writers 
are not able to find any other record of such application. Egyptian is a name 
frequently used by farmers for the Gipsy variety. Farmers Friend is the name 
which has been applied to Gipsy wheat, as well as several other varieties. A 
sample of Farmers Friend obtained from the Wisconsin station in 1917 as Wis- 
consin No. 55.proved to be a mixture of Gipsy and Fulcaster. Golden Straw 
is the name used for a sample of Gipsy wheat obtained from Kansas in 1919. — 
Grains o’Gold is a name applied to a mixed lot of wheat by the J. A. Everitt | 
Seed Co. (O. K. Seed Stcre), Indianapolis, Ind., and distributed about 1912. | 
They stated it was originated by E. K. Adams, of Allendale, 111.7% Our samples | 
of this wheat contained a considerable proportion of Gipsy with admixtures © 
of Fulcaster, Fultz, and Fultzo-Mediterranean. It was | 
reported in 1919 from Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Ten- 
nessee, and West Virginia. 
Gipsy Queen is a name used for Gipsy in Indiana. | 
Lebanon is a wheat similar to Gipsy, though it appears. 
to have a‘slightly harder kernel. Its origin is undeter- 
Fic. 54,—Outline map of wined. It has been grown by the Ohio Agricultural 
pore of the Ce Experiment Station since about 1893 (204, p. 39). The 
United States, show- 
ing the distribution of name Lebanon is used for other varieties of wheat, one 
Valley wheat in 1919. of which is identical with Mediterranean and another is | 
Estimated area, 5,200 very similar to Mammoth Amber. Niagara is the name | 
Ste under which a sample of Gipsy was obtained from Hud- © 
sonville, Mich., in 1919. Reliable is a wheat of undetermined origin, practically | 
identical with Gipsy. It was grown by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion as early as 1888 (81, p. 29). It was reported in 1919 from Michigan and | 
Pennsylvania. 
VALLEY. 
Description.—Valley differs from Gipsy only in being taller, slightly earlier, 
and having slightly longer spikes and glumes. Photographs of a spike, glumes, | 
and kernels of Valley are shown in Plate XX XVII, B. | 
History.—Valley was obtained by the Ohio station from Elias Tetter, Pleasant | 
Plain, Ohio, in 1883, and grown by them for the first time in 1884 (81, p. 35). | 
It is ‘said to have originated in the Scioto Valley, Ohio” (114, p. 3). 
Distribution—Grown in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and under synonyms in 
Kansas and Texas. This distribution is shown in Figure 54. 
Synonyms—German Amber, Indiana Swamp, Niagara, Russian Amber, and 
Rust Proof. 
German Amber is a name used for Valley in Cherokee County, Kans. Indiana | 
Swamp is a name under which a sample of wheat very similar to Valley was © 
obtained from the Illinois station in 1913. A wheat under that name was grown 
yy them as early as 1902. The Everitt O. K. Seed Store advertised Indiana | 
Swamp wheat in 1899, stating that it was of the Mediterranean type, The | 
name Swamp is also used for several other varieties. Indiana Swamp was © 
_eported in 1919 from Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, but most of the wheat 
su reported evidently was Mediterranean. Niagara is the name of a wheat 
obtained from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913, which is 
*1 Correspondence with the Office of Cereal Investigations, dated Sept. 26, 1912. 
