CLASSIFICATIOIT OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 
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Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, 
Virginia, Washington. West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. This distribution 
is shown in Figure 57. 
Si/nouj/ms. — Alberta Red, Argentine, Bulgarian, Crimean, Defiance, Egyptian, 
Hard Winter, Hundred-and-One, Hungarian, Improved Turkey, Kharkof, Lost 
Freight. Malcome. Malakof, Minnesota Red Cross, Minnesota Reliable, Pioneer 
Turkey, Red Russian, Red Winter, Romanella, Russian, Tauranian, Theiss, 
Turkey Red, Turkish Red, Ulta, Wisconsin No. 18, Worlds Champion. 
Alberta Red is a name which was originally given a lot of Turkey wheat 
grown about 20 miles from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 1906. Selections of 
heads of the variety were made under the direction of W. M. Gilfoy, manager 
of the Calgary IMilling Co. An extra good sample was thus obtained, which 
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was distributed under the name Alberta Red. Argentine is a name under 
which a strain of Turkey wheat has been grown at the Sherman County branch 
station, Moro, Oreg., for a number of yeai"s. In the experiments there it has 
proved to be one of the highest yielding strains of Crimean wheat. The w^heat 
was obtained on the stock exchange, Marseilles, France, in 1900, by W. T. 
Swingle, of the Department of Agriculture {ITi, S. P. I. No. 5354). It is 
recorded as being one of a collection of different types of macaroni wheat, but 
this particular lot proved to be common wheat of the Turkey type. Bulgarian 
is a name under which a sample of Turkey wheat was obtained from the 
Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station in 1913. 
Crimean is the name properly used for this whole group of hard red winter 
wheats. It also has been used as a varietal name for separate introductions. 
The first introduction of the wheat under this name is thought to have been 
made by Carleton in 1900 {Idl, S. P. I. No. 5635) from Kurman-Kemelchi, Cen- 
tral Crimea, Russia. Defiance is a name under which a lot of Turkey wheat 
was distributed by the Iowa Seed Co., of Des Moines, Iowa. It was advertised 
as their novelty of 1900, which was the first year the name was applied to a 
hard red winter wheat. Egj^itian is a name sometimes used for Turkey, as 
well as other varieties. A sample of Turkey under this name was obtained 
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