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BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 
[A. S.-5189.] 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICXH-TURE, 
BUREAU OF CROP ESTIMATES. 
WHEAT VARIETY SURVEY SCHEDULE. 
TO BE MAILED PROMPTLY. 
Washwoton, D. C, March, 1919, 
Deab Sie: The Department of Agriculture vnshea to learn more about the wheat crop and the changes that are taking place in 
varieties being grown. 
To the wheat-growing industry this is very important. Every schedule properly filled and promptly returned Trill make the results 
of greater value. It is hoped that you will cooperate by filling the schedule as completely as posdble and returning it in the inclosed 
envelope, which requires no postage. 
If you are unable to give the information asked, but know some one in the county who can, will you please refer this schedule to 
him. If no wheat is grown in }-our county, please return this schedule, writing across It "No wheat." ■ 
Respectfullv, 
LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief of Bureau. 
QUESTIONS. " 
(Insert anawers for your own community in tabular form below.) 
A. What •wheat varieties are grown in your locality? 
B. What percentage of the total -wheat acreage in your locality dees each variety represent? 
C. Please describe the varieties named by writing in the columns below the proper -word, as "Winter," 
"Spring," or "Both," and so on for head, chaff, and kernel characters, 
WHEAT VARIETIES. 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. 
Any further facts you can give about these varieties vnU be appreciated. For instance, if any of them 
are used only, or chiefly, on some particular kind of soil, please tell that fact. If any of them are newly in- 
troduced in the community, please tell -where and when they -were obtained. (Baclj of this sheet may be 
Tised for this purpose.) 
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Fig. 1.- — A returned questionnaire of the v\-beat varietal survey. 
some. Others are only numbers, which sometimes are equally long 
and cumbersome or are easily confused. Because of this condition, 
a code of nomenclature was proposed by Ball and Clark (4^), so 
that in this classification varietal names could be selected in ac- 
cordance with its rules. The code was presented to the American 
Society of Agronomy at its annual business meeting on November 
13, 1917. After a few minor changes were made by the committee 
on varietal nomenclature, it was adopted by the society (J7) as 
follows : 
