CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 
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Distrihutipn.—Grov^'n in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Tlie distribution is sliown in 
Figure 44. 
Synonyms. — Bluestem, Lebanon Valley, Mortgage Lifter, and Pennsylvania' 
Bluestem. Bluestem and Pennsylvania Bluestem are names widely used for 
China in the States where it is grown. A. H. Hoffman, seedsman, of Landis- 
ville. Pa'., has distributed the variety in that State under the name Pennsylvania 
Bluestem. 
Lebanon Valley is the name under which a sample of China was obtained 
from R. Chester Ross, of Honey Brook, Pa., who stated that the variety 
" Originated in Lebanon Valley, Pa." 
Mortgage Lifter is the name under which a sample of China was obtained 
from the Cornell University station in 1912. 
WHEEDLING. 
Des(yription. —VldiVit winter habit, late, midtall to tall; stem purple, strong; 
spike awnless, oblong-fusiform, middense, erect; glumes glabrous, light brown, 
midlong to long, midwide ; shoulders wanting to 
narrow, oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 1 mm. 
long; apical awns few, 3 to 15 mm. long; kernels 
red, midlong, soft, ovate; germ midsized; crease 
midwide, middeep ; cheeks angular; brush small, 
midlong. 
Wheedling differs from China in being shorter 
and in having a more erect spike and narrower 
shoulders. 
History. — " This variety was originated about 
18 years ago (1890) by Louis Wheedling, of In- 
diana. Mr. Wheedling, while walking in his wheat 
field, noticed some heads slightly different from 
the surrounding ones. These he selected, and from them came the variety that 
bears his name" {122, p. 90). 
Distribution. — Grown in Cass, Clinton, Elkhart, Marshall, and St. Joseph 
Counties, Ind. 
RED MAY. 
Fig. 44. — Outline map of a 
portion of the eastern 
United States, showing 
the distribution of China 
wheat in 1919. Esti- 
mated area, 63,900 acres. 
Deso'iption. — Plant winter habit, early, midtall to tall; stem purple, mid- 
strong; spike awnless, usually oblong, middense, erect to inclined; glumes 
glabrous, brown, short to midlong, wide ; shoulders wide, usually square ; beaks 
narrow, triangular, 0.5 mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 12 mm. long; kernels 
red, usually short, soft, ovate ; germ midsized ; crease midwide to wide, middeep 
to deep ; cheeks usually angular ; brush usually small, midlong. 
Red May dilfers from Poole and China in being earlier and in having a 
broader and more oblong spike and wider glumes with squarer shoulders. The 
glumes and shoulders of Red May also are wider than those of Wheedling. 
Spikes, glumes, and kernels of Red May wheat are shown in Plate XXIX, B. 
History. — The Red May is believed to be identical with or descended from 
the Red or Yellow Lammas. Several writers have suggested the identity. 
Tracy {195, p. 396) mentions YelloAv Lammas as being a synonym of Red May. 
The Lammas Avas mentioned by Koernicke and Werner {13S, p. 253 and 290) 
as being a very old English wheat grown previous even to 1699. Both the Red 
and Yellow Lammas were grown in Virginia many years before the Revolu- 
tionary War, A White May wheat of a later period, according to Cabell {56, 
