136 BULLETIIT 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Distribution. — Grown as Fulcaster or under one of the many synonyms, in 
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, 
Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, 
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South 
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. (Fig. 55.) 
Synonyms. — Acme, Acme Bred, Bearded Bluestem, Bearded Purplestraw, 
Blankenship, Blue Ridge, Bluestem, Canadian, Champion, Corn, Cumberland 
Valley, Dietz, Dietz Longberry, Dietz Longberry Red, Ebersole, Eversole, 
Egyptian Amber, Farmers Friend, Georgia Red, Golden Chaff, Golden King, 
Greening, Improved Acme, Ironclad, Kansas Mortgage Lifter, Kentucky Giant, 
I^ancaster, Lancaster-Fulcaster, Lincoln, Martha Washington, Michigan Red 
Line, Moore's Prolific, Number 10, Price's Wonder, Red Wonder, Stoner (Eden, 
Famine, Forty-to-One, Half Bushel, Kentucky Wonder, Marvelous, Millennium, 
Millennium Dawn, Miracle, 
Multiplier, Multiplying, 
Nev^^ Light, New Marvel or 
Goose, Peck, Russellite, 
Russell's Wonder, Stooling, 
Two Peck, Three Peck, 
Wonderful ) , Turkish Am- 
ber, Tuscan Island, and 
Winter King. 
Acme and Acme Bred 
were names applied to 
strains of Fulcaster by S. M. 
Schindel, seedsman, of 
Hagerstown, Md., about 
1911. The name Improved 
Acme is now used also for 
this variety in Maryland. 
Bearded Bluestem, Blue- 
stem, and Bearded Purple- 
straw are names used for 
Fulcaster because the va- 
riety has purple stems. 
Bearded Purplestraw was first obtained by the Office of Cereal Inves- 
tigations from Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1899. Blankenship is the name under 
whicli a sample of Fulcaster was obtained in 1919 from Stella, ^lo., 
where it had been grown for many years. The report stated that the 
variety was " very hardy, almost fly proof, branches well, and lays close to 
ground in winter." Blue Ridge is the name of a wheat practically identical 
with Fulcaster, which vras first obtained from the Kentucky station in 1913. 
Blue Ridge was reported in 1919 from North Carolina, New Jersey, and 
Pennsylvania. Canadian is the name under which a sample of Fulcaster was 
obtained from Dyer, Tenn. It was reported grown in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ten- 
nessee, and Virginia. Champion is the name used for Fulcaster wheat in 
Genesee County, Michigan. Corn is the name used for a sample of Fnlcaster 
wheat obtained from Cumberland Valley, Pa. Corn wlioat, however, usually 
refers to I*olish wheat. Cumberland Valley is a local name used for Fulcaster 
in Clinton County, Ohio, during the past 10 years. 
Dietz, Dietz Longberry, and Dietz Longberry Red are apparently the same 
variety and morphologically identical with Fulcaster. 
Dietz Longberry is reported to have been originated by George A. Dietz, of 
Chambersburg, Pa. (80, p. 17). 
Fig. 55. — Outline map of the eastern United vStates 
showing the distribution of Fulcaster wheat in 1910 
Estimated ai'ea, 2,576,500 acres. 
