CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 
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wan Fife (201). This wheat in a few years became well known and quite 
widely grown and is still in cultivation. It was reported grown in New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota. 
Description. — Power is slightly shorter and has a more erect spike than 
Red Fife, and the kernels are slightly shorter. A spike of Power wheat is 
show^n in Plate VI, Figure 3. 
History — Power is a pure-line selection of Red Fife wheat which was started 
about 1885 by James Holes, of Fargo, N. Dak., from a single plant of Red 
Fife wheat found growing in an oat field (39, p. 11). Some of this seed 
was obtained by J. B. Power, of Power, N. Dak., who increased it and dis- 
tributed it in large quantities under the name of Power Fife. This strain 
was grown by the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and known 
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as Station No. 66. A number of pure-line selections were made from it at 
the North Dakota Exx>eriment Station in 1892. One of these pure lines, known 
as North Dakota No. 313 (C. I. No. 3697), has been called Power, and is 
the strain now most commonly grown. In exi)eriments at the Williston sub- 
station, Williston, N. Dak., it proved to be a high-yielding wheat for that 
section, and seed was recently increased and distributed in the vicinity of that 
station. 
Distribution. — Grown in Montana and North Dakota. 
Synonyms. — Power's Fife, Station No. 66. 
GLYNDON. 
Description. — Plant spring habit, midseason, midtall to tall; stem white, 
midstrong ; spike awnless, fusiform, middense to lax, inclined ; glumes glabrous, 
■\vhite, midlong, midwide ; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks narrow, 
acute, 0.5 to 1.0 mm. long; apical awns fev/, 3 to 15 mm. long; kernels red, 
midlong, hard, ovate ; germ midsized ; crease wide, deep ; cheeks angular ; brush 
midsized, midlong. 
