CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 179 
History.— The origin of Bliiechaff (Blue Chaff Calvert Club) was recor(l(«il,'° 
by James Calvert, of Junction City, Oreg., as follows : 
My boy, A. C. Calvert, while shocking after me while I was binding, 24 years 
ago this harvest, found seven heads of the wheat from one stalk. It looked so 
nuich better, harder, and plumper wheat than any of the other wheat, that I 
took it home and planted it in the garden and hoed it the same as we did the 
corn, and it developed such plump heads and kernels of wheat that I kept on 
until the seventh year, when we raised 750 bushels of wheat. 
Distribution. — Reported in 1919 from Jackson County, Oreg. It is known 
to be or to have been grown in Benton, Linn, and Lane Counties, Oreg. 
DALE (DALE GLORIA). 
Description. — Plant spring habit, midseason, short to midtall ; stem purple, 
strong, stout ; spike awnless, elliptical, dense, erect ; glumes glabrous, dark 
brown, midlong, midwide ; shoulders wanting to narrow, oblique ; beaks wide, 
obtuse, 0.5 mm. long; apical awns several, 3 to 20 mm. long; kernels red, short 
to midlong, soft, ovate, humped, pinched ; germ small ; crease narrow, shallow ; 
cheeks rounded to angular ; brush small, midlong. 
This variety is distinguished by its red kernels and purple straw. Dale 
( Dale Gloria ) , as commercially grown, usually is a mixture, the type described 
above predominating. White-kerneled strains, having both white and brown 
glumes, have been obtained from commercial fields. Spikes, glumes, and kernels 
of this variety are shown in Plate LII, B. 
History. — The origin of Dale (Dale Gloria) wheat has been recorded by 
Hunter (125), as follows: 
During the year 1900 Mr. William H. Dale, of Helix, Umatilla County, 
Oreg., found a stool of wheat of eight heads growing among his other wheat. 
He recognized the superior qualities of this individual plant, saved the seed, 
and planted it by itself. The next year, 1901, he raised 4 pounds of seed. 
In 1902 he raised 5 bushels, in 1903 there were 51 sacks, and in 1904, 4.000 
bushels. Knowing no name for the variety he called it Dale Gloria. 
Distribution. — Grown in Umatilla County, Oreg., and Whitman County, 
Wash. 
COPPEI. 
Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall; stem white, strong; 
spike awnless, oblong to elliptical, dense, erect ; glumes pubescent, white, mid- 
long, midwide; shoulders narrow, usually oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 
1 mm. long; apical awns several, 2 to 15 mm. long; kernels red, short to mid- 
long, soft to semihard, ovate, humped ; germ midsized ; crease midwide, mid- 
deep ; cheeks rounded to angular; brush small, midlong. (PI. LIII, A.) 
History. — Coppei was developed by J. L. Harper, who, in the fall of 1907, 
selected a plant of an unknown variety found in a tield of Little Club belonging 
to W. G. Preston, located near Coppei Creek, 3 miles south of Waitsburg, Wash. 
Mr. Harper saved five heads fi'om this plant and sowed the seed from them in 
his garden in Waitsburg. In 1908 he thrashed from this plat about a pound of 
wheat. This he gave to J. B. Kinder, a farmer, who increased the seed until 
1911, when he distributed it to others. Mr. Harper named the variety Coppei 
because it came from a farm near Coppei Creek.^" The variety is probably the 
result of a natural field cross between Little Club and Jones Fife. 
^ Correspondence with Ira P. Whitnej-, county agricultural agent, Eugene, Oreg., dated 
Oct. 17, 1921. 
«" Correspondence from Prof. R. K. Bonnett. Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, 
dated July 24, 1920. 
