136 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Distribution—Grown as Fulcaster or under one of the many synonyms, in 
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, 
Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, 
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South 
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. (Fig. 55.) 
Synonyms.—Acme, Acme Bred, Bearded Bluestem, Bearded Purplestraw, 
Blankenship, Blue Ridge, Bluestem, Canadian, Champion, Corn, Cumberland 
Valley, Dietz, Dietz Longberry, Dietz Longberry Red, Ebersole, Eversole, 
Egyptian Amber, Farmers Friend, Georgia Red, Golden Chaff, Golden King, 
Greening, Improved Acme, Ironclad, Kansas Mortgage Lifter, Kentucky Giant, 
Lancaster, Lancaster-Fulcaster, Lincoln, Martha Washington, Michigan Red 
Line, Moore’s Prolific; Number 10, Price’s Wonder, Red Wonder, Stoner (Eden, 
Famine, Forty-to-One, Half Bushel, Kentucky Wonder, Marvelous, Millennium, 
Millennium Dawn, Miracle, 
Multiplier, Multiplying, 
New Light, New Marvel or 
Goose, Peck, Russellite, 
Russells Wonder, Stooling, 
Two Peck, Three Peck, 
Wonderful), Turkish Am- 
ber, Tuscan Island, and 
Winter King. 
Acme and Acme Bred 
were names applied to 
strains of Fuleaster by S. M. 
Schindel, seedsman, of 
Hagerstown, Md., about 
1911. The name Improved 
Acme is now used also for 
this variety in Maryland. 
Bearded Bluestem, Blue- 
stem, and Bearded Purple- 
Fic. 55.—Outline map of the eastern United States, straw are names used for 
showing the distribution of Fulcaster wheat in 1919. Fulcaster because the va- 
Estimated area, 2,576,500 acres. i 
riety has purple stems. 
Bearded Purplestraw was first obtained by the Office of Cereal Inves- 
tigations from Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1899. Blankenship is the name under 
which a sample of Fulcaster was obtained in 1919 from Stella, Mo., 
where it had been grown for many years. The report stated that the 
variety was ‘‘ very hardy, almost fiy proof, branches well, and lays close to 
ground in winter.” Blue Ridge is the name of a wheat practically identical 
with Fulcaster, which was first obtained from the Kentucky station in 1918. 
Blue Ridge was reported in 1919 from North Carolina, New Jersey, and 
Pennsylvania. Canadian is the name under which a sample of Fuleaster was 
obtained from Dyer, Tenn. It was reported grown in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ten- 
nessee, and Virginia. Champion is the name used for Fuleaster wheat in 
Genesee County, Michigan. Corn is the name used for a sample of Fulcaster 
wheat obtained from Cumberland Valley, Pa. Corn wheat, however, usually. 
refers to Polish wheat. Cumberland Valley is a local name used for Fulcaster 
in Clinton County, Ohio, during the past 10 years. 
Dietz, Dietz Longberry, and Dietz Longberry Red are apparently the same 
variety and morphologically identical with Fulcaster. 
Dietz Longberry is reported to have been originated by George A. Dietz, of 
Chambersburg, Pa. (80, p. 17). 
