CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 
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DistrlMition. — Grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, 
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Okla- 
homa, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
The distribution is shown in Figure 41. 
Synonyms. — Gill, Golden Chaff, Pearl Prolific, Perfection, Prettybone, Prolific, 
Red Odessa, Red Prolific, and Tennessee Prolific. 
Gill is a name used for Currell by growers in Kentucky. The name is also 
used for the Poole variety in the same State. Golden Chaff is practically the 
same if not entirely identical with Currell. The origin of this variety is not 
known. It has been gro\Mi by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station 
since 1902 {83, p. 106-111). T. W. Wood & Sons, seedsmen, of Richmond, Va., 
have advertised and distributed the variety in the Southeastern States since 
about 1905. It has been reported from nearly all the States in which Currell 
is grown. 
Pearl Prolific is probably a mispronunciation of the name Currell Prolific. 
A sample of this variety obtained from the Cornell University station in 1912 
proved to be identical with Currell. Pearl Prolific is grown in Alabama, Indi- 
ana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia. 
Perfection is apparently identical with 
Currell. It was grown by the Ohio Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station as early as 
1895 (204, p. 39). Perfection is grown 
in Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
and Tennessee. Prettybone is the name 
of a wheat almost identical with Currell 
which was obtained in 1919 from Madi- 
son County, N. C, where it had been 
grown for at least four years. 
Prolific is a shortening of the name of 
the variety as used by growers. Red 
Odessa is the name under which a 
sample of Currell was obtained from 
Smiths Grove, Ky., in 1919. Red Prolific 
is a name applied to Currell because of the color of the glumes. 
Prolific is a name used for the variety in Alabama. 
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FlG. 41. — Outline map of the east-central 
United States, showing the distribution 
of Currell wheat in 1919. Estimated 
area, 645,000 acres. 
Tennessee 
WINTER CHIEF. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, short; stem faintly purple, 
strong; spike awnless, broadly oblong, middense, erect to nodding; glumes 
glabrous, brown, long, midwide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks 
wade, obtuse, 0.5 to 1 mm. long; apical awns several, 3 to 20 mm. long; ker- 
nels red, midlong, soft, ovate to oval, frequently elliptical, flattened; germ 
small ; crease midwide, middeep to deep ; cheeks usually rounded ; brush small 
to midsized, midlong. 
Winter Cliief differs from Poole principally in being shorter and having more 
erect spikes. 
History. — The origin of Winter Chief is undetermined. A sample was ob- 
tained from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913, which in 
turn had received it from Everitt's O. K. Seed Store, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Distribution. — Winter Chief is not known to be commercially grown. 
