128 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMEIS^T OF AGRICULTURE. 
Synonyms. — Bull Moose, Golden Chaff, New Genesee, and Velvet Head. 
Bull Moose is a recent and local name used for Grandprize wheat in Craw- 
ford County, 111. Golden Chaff is a name used for Grandprize in Indiana. 
New Genesee Is the name under which a wheat similar to Grandprize was ob- 
tained from the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, Madison, Wis., 
in 1917. Its origin is undetermined. This sample was not pure. It contains 
a greater percentage of the form having oblong spikes than does Grandprize 
itself. New Genesee is not known to be commercially grown. Velvet Head is 
a name under which Grandprize wheat was reported from Kentucky. 
DEMOCRAT. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, tall; stem white, strong; spike 
awned, fusiform, middense, inclined ; glumes glabrous, white, midlong, mid- 
wide ; shoulders wanting to narrow ; beaks 1 to 3 mm. long ; awns 3 to 6 cm. 
long ; kernels white, midlong, soft, ovate, acute ; germ small to midsized : crease 
usually narrow, shallow to middeep ; cheeks angular ; brush small, midlong. 
Democrat is the only variety of winter wheat having awned white-glumed 
fusiform spikes and midsized white kernels. 
History. — The origin of Democrat wheat is undetermined. It was grown by 
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station as early as 1883. It was obtained by 
that station from George Burr, of Lodi, Ohio, and at that time was recorded 
as being a variety quite generally grown in Ohio {80, p. 17) . 
Distribution. — Grown sparingly in Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
and West Virginia. 
SENECA CHIEr. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, late, short to midtall; stem white, mid- 
Strong, stout; spike a^vned, clavate, dense, inclined; glumes glabrous, white, 
midlong, midwide; shoulders wanting to narrow, rounded; beaks 3 to 20 mm. 
long; awns 3 to 7 cm. long; kernels white, short, soft, broadly ovate to oval; 
germ midsized ; crease midwide, shallow ; cheeks usually rounded ; brush mid- 
sized, midlong. 
Seneca Chief, as described above, differs from Oatka Chief in being shorter 
and in having a shorter and denser spike, longer beaks, and smaller kernels. 
History. — The origin of Seneca Chief is not determined. It w^as reported by 
Carleton in 1900 as a wheat of American origin {58, p. 54). It was listed by the 
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station for the first time in 1888 {81, p. 29), but 
at that time w^as described as an awned, brown-glumed, red-kerneled variety 
similar to Diehl-Mediterranean. This may be the correct description for Seneca 
Chief, and the variety growTi by the writers may possibly be the old Diehl wheat 
which is known to have been of this type. 
Distribution. — Seneca Chief as described above was formerly gro^vn in New 
York, but is not now known to be grown commercially. It is being grown at 
several experiment stations. 
OATKA CHIEF. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, late, midtall; stem white, strong, stout; 
spike awned, linear-clavate, inclined; glumes glabrous, white, midlong, mid- 
wide ; shoulders narrow, usually rounded ; beaks 2 to 10 mm. long ; a\vns 3 to 6 
cm. long ; kernels white, short to midlong, soft, ovate to elliptical ; germ mid- 
sized; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks usually rounded; brush midsized, 
midlong. 
