CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 
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Distrilution. — This strain was distributed in 1916 by the Nebraska Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station for testing at other stations and for commercial grow- 
ing in Nebraska. It is now grown by a number of experiment stations in the 
United States, and doubtless to some extent by farmers in Nebraska. None of 
this variety was reported in the survey of 1919. 
8y]ionijm. — Nebraska Hybrid is the name used by several experiment stations 
where the variety is grown. 
GLADDEN. 
Besa^iption. — Gladden is similar to Gipsy, but can be distinguished from it 
by its shorter beaks, which usually do not exceed 3 mm. It also has stronger 
stems and is superior to Gipsy in yield and quality. 
History. — The following history of the Gladden wheat has been reported by 
Prof. C. G. Williams {206), of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, where 
the variety originated : 
The Gladden wheat originated from a single head of wheat selected from a 
field of Gipsy wheat in 1905, and was 
first grown in 1906 under the number 
6100, along with other head rows of 
Gipsy, Fultz, Poole, and other varieties. 
It lias many of the characteristics of 
the Gipsy wheat, being bearded, having 
a white chaff and red kernel. 
In consulting the old notebooks of 14 
years ago I find it described as " very 
erect " in growth, the words being un- 
derscored, and given the highest rank 
for stiffness of straw of any of the 
Gipsy rows, and as high a rank as any 
row in the test. The photographs taken 
in 1907, 1910, and 1915 show more than 
ordinary stiffness of straw. — 
In so far as yield is concerned, it 
had to stand high from the start or be 
cast aside. A vast majority of the heads 
tested were weeded out each year on ac- 
count of ordinary yield. In milling and baking tests in 1915 the Gladden showed 
superior qualities. 
This variety passed along under the number name, 6100, until 1915, when it 
seemed best to give it a real name in order to prevent confusion, as it was being 
distributed quite a little over the State. It was named for Washington Gladden, 
a man not associated with agriculture particularly, but the most useful citizen 
Ohio had for many years. 
Distribution. — Grown in many parts of Ohio. 
Fig. 53. — Outline map of the nortli- 
eastern United States, showing the 
distribution of Gipsy wheat in 1919. 
Estimated area, 122,500 acres. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall; stem white, midstrong; 
spikes awned, fusiform, middense, inclined ; glumes glabrous, white, midlong, 
midwide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks 2 to 10 mm. long; awns 
3 to 7 cm. long ; kernels red, midlong, soft to semihard, ovate, humped ; germ 
midsized ; crease midwide, shallow to middeep, pitted ; cheeks usually rounded ; 
brush small, midlong. 
A spike, glumes, and kernels of Gipsy wheat are shown in Plate XXXVII, A. 
History. — The origin of Gipsy wheat is undetermined. It was grown in Mis- 
souri as early as 1877 {llf) and at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 
by 1888 {81, p. 28). There is a tradition that the name was given the variety 
because it was first obtained from a gipsy. 
Distrihution. — Grown in Arkansas, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken- 
tucky, Michigan, IMissouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West 
Virginia. (Fig. 53.) 
