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BULLETIN 336, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
varieties, 7 are bearded and 3 beardless; 7 are white chaffed and 3 
brown chaffed; and 9 have glabrous (smooth) and 1 pubescent 
(velvet) chaff. 
Table V. — The ten highest yielding varieties of wheat at the Maryland Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station (College Park) and at Arlington Farm, Va., arranged in order of 
yield, with the record of each in both locations. 
[The numerators of fractions in the columns headed "Rank" denote the rank of the variety for the years 
grown; the denominators indicate the number of varieties grown in those years.] 
C.I. 
No. 
Md. 
No. 
At College Park. At Arlington Farm. 
Name. 
Rank. 
Num- 
ber of 
years 
grown. 
Aver- 
age 
yield. 
Rank. 
Num- 
ber of 
years 
grown. 
Aver- 
age 
yield. 
College Park: 
China 
Mammoth Red 
Bearded Purple Straw 
Turkish Amber 
"266s" 
1911 
194 
195 
""89" 
*"i88' 
95 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
8 
9 
10 
a 9 
~*u 
5 
ft 
7 
5 
7 
7 
31.17 
31.09 
30.95 
30.11 
30.03 
29.62 
29.56 
29.53 
28.92 
28.71 
25.39 
30.03 
27.17 
25.92 
It 
1 s 
2 
5 
5 
2090 
27.41 
23.86 
Lancaster 
Currell 
1945 
?! 
5 
2 
5 
5 
29.74 
25.25 
Bearded Winter Fife 
Dietz (Dietz Longberry) 
1942 
1981 
28.24 
26.87 
Dietz 
Arlington Farm: 
Purple Straw 
Lancaster 
Dawson 
Fultz 
Purple Straw 
Poole 
Bearded Winter Fife 
Stoner 
Mammoth R ed 
Rocky Mountain 
1915 
1945 
1733 
1923 
1957 
1979 
1942 
2980 
2008 
1930 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
4 
5 
5 
32.09 
29.74 
29.37 
29.17 
29.08 
".358' 
if 
T5 
n 
30 
4 
3 
5 
29.22 
29.56 
25.47 
31.09 
26.66 
28.74 
28.24 
27.42 
27.41 
27.33 
Of the 43 varieties and strains grown at Arlington, the 10 highest in 
order of yield (Table V) are (1) Purple Straw (C. I. No. 1915), (2) 
Lancaster, (3) Dawson, (4) Fultz, (5) Purple Straw (C. I. No. 1957), 
(6) Poole, (7) Bearded Winter Fife, (8) Stoner, (9) Mammoth Red, 
and (10) Rocky Mountain. The difference in the 5-year average yield 
between Purple Straw (C. I. No. 1915) and Rocky Mountain is 4.76 
bushels. Of these 10 varieties, 8 have red grains and 2 (Nos. 3 and 7) 
have white grains. Of the red-grained varieties, 3 (Nos. 1, 4, and 5) 
are beardless, with glabrous white chaff; 3 (Nos. 2, 8, and 9) are 
bearded, with glabrous white chaff; 1 (No. 6) is beardless, with 
glabrous brown chaff; and 1 (No. 10) is bearded, with glabrous brown 
chaff. Of the two white-grained varieties, 1 (No. 3) is beardless, with 
glabrous brown chaff, and 1 (No. 7) is bearded, with hairy white chaff. 
Of the 10 varieties, 5 are bearded and 5 beardless; 7 are white chaffed 
and 3 are brown chaffed ; and 9 have glabrous and 1 hairy chaff. 
The Lancaster, Mammoth Red, and Bearded Winter Fife are the 
only varieties which appear among the 10 best at both College Park 
and Arlington. Of the other 7 among the 10 best at College Park the 
China has been grown only 2 years at Arlington and has been low in 
yield in both; Bearded Purple Straw has been eighteenth and Dietz 
