110 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
is the name used by most growers in New York. Red Hussar is a name under 
which this variety was obtained from the Cornell University Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station. The true Red Hussar, however, is an awned variety. 
Twentieth Century is the name used for the variety in Erie County, Ohio, where 
it has been grown for 15 years or more. 
SQUAEEHEADS MASTER. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, late, midtall; stem white, strong, stout; 
spike awnless, clavate, dense, erect; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong. wide; 
shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, incurved, 1 mm. 
long; apical awns few, 1 to 10 mm. long; kernels red. midlong, soft, broadly 
ovate; germ small to midsized, abrupt; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks 
rounded; brush large, midlong. Differs from Red Russian only in having 
brown glumes. 
History. — The variety described above is found rather commonly as a mix- 
ture in fields of the Red Russian variety in Idaho and Washington. Square- 
heads Master is an English variety, and the history of its introduction to the 
Pacific Northwest is not known. A sample introduced from England in 1911 
by the United States Department of Agriculture is very similar to several se- 
lections the writers have made of the mixtures in Red Russian fields in Wash- 
ington and also to a selection from a field of Red Russian made by Glen. 
Roundtree, Boistfort, Lewis County, Wash., who increased it and now has a 
field of the variety. In England, Squareheads Master is reported to have 
been selected by Mr. Teverson from Scholey's Squarehead, and is probably 
the result of a natural cross between Scholey's and the Golden Drop {85; 155, 
p. 33). 
Distribution. — Grown as a mixture in fields of other varieties in California, 
Idaho, and Washington, and in pure culture to a very limited extent in Lewis 
County, Wash. 
Synonyms. — Australian Club, Brown Squarehead, Redchaff Red Russian. 
Australian Club is the name which was first used for the Brown Squarehead 
wheat by Mr. Roundtree. Brown Squarehead and Redchaff Red Russian have 
been used as names to describe the wheat where it occurs as mixtures, because 
it differs from the Squarehead and Red Russian varieties principally in glume 
color. 
CURKELL (CURRELL's PROLIFIC). 
Description. — Plante* winter habit, early, midtall; stem usually purple, mid- 
strong; spike awnless, fusiform, middense, inclined; glumes glabrous, brown, 
midlong, narrow to midwide, shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks 
usually wide, sometimes nearly wanting, 0.5 mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 
10 mm. long ; kernels dull red, short to midlong, soft, ovate ; germ midsized ; 
crease narrow to midwide, shallow to middeep, distinctly triangular ; cheeks 
usually rounded ; brush small, midlong. 
Currell is distinguished from other varieties in this group of purple-strawed 
wheats by its slender spike. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of this variety are 
shown in Plate XXVIII, A. 
History. — The history of Currell (Currell's Prolific) has been recorded by 
Carleton {61, p. 202) as follows: 
Currell Prolific wheat was selected by Mr. W. E. Currell, of Virginia, from 
a field of Fultz in 1881. The original seed was from three spikes. It was first 
sold for seed in 1884. 
