190 BIXLETIX lOT-t. r. S. DEPAET:IEXT of AGEICULXrEE. 
The Pererodka vai-iety was grown in experiments fur a number of years in 
rlie norrheni Great Plains and appeared to be identical with Kubanka in all 
respects. 
Tagani-og (iPT, S. P. I. Xo. 5355) is the name under which a wheat similar 
to Kubanka was obtained from Marseilles, France, in 1900. by W. T, Swingle, 
of the United States Department of Agriculture. This is not a varietal name 
in France, but rather the name of a port of Russia, and the sample intro- 
duced was probably a bulk lot of seed shipped from Taganrog. 
Yellow Gharnovka (191, S. P. I. ZS"o. 5642) has the same history as Ghar- 
novka discussed above. 
KrSAXKA xo. s. 
Description. — Kubanka ]S'o. S is a selection from Kubanka, identical in ap- 
pearance but a better yielder in western Xorth Dakota. It is much more 
susceptible to stem rust than the unselected Kubanka and principally for that 
reason has not yielded well over a wider area. 
Histori/. — ^Kubanka Xo. 8 (C. I. No. 4063) is a pure-line selection from 
Kubanka (C. I. Xo. 1440) made in 1906 by Prof. L. R. Waldron. now of the 
X'orth Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, at the Dickinson Substation, 
Dickinson. X". Dak., where it proved to be a high-yielding strain (b'-J. p. IT). 
DistrihiitiojL — It was distributed to growers in the vicinity of Dickinson 
as early as 1911. and has been grown commercially since in western Xorth 
Dakota and at most experiment stations in the northern Great Plains area. 
ELTOBD. 
Description. — ^Buford is similar to Kubanka. except that it has a slightly 
narrower and laxer spike. It proved to be a high-yielding variety at the Wil- 
liston substation. Williston, X. Dak., but it has a gluten of poor quality, as 
shown by a small loaf volume. 
History. — Buford is the result of a pure-line selection made by F. R. Babeock, 
a representative of the TTnited States Department of Agriculture, at the Willis- 
ton substation. Williston, X. Dak., in 1909. This selection was made from a 
plat of Taganrog. It was first grown in plat experiments in 1913. when it out- 
yielded all other varieties grown. It continued to yield well and in 1917 was 
given the name Buford, from the Buford-Trenton Reclamation Project, on which 
the Williston substation is located, and was distributed i. /.?. p. 46 >. 
Distrit)uiion. — Grown in Williams and Divide Counties. X. Dak., and in 
Montana. 
MAEOrAXI. 
Description. — Plant spring habit, midseason, very taU: stem white, weak: 
spike awned, broadly oblong, dense, nodding: glumes glabrous, yellowish, mid- 
long, wide : shoulders narrow, usually elevated : beaks wide, 1 to 15 mm. long : 
a^-ns yellowish. 8 to 20 mm. long: kernels white (amber), very long, hard, 
elliptical, humped ; germ large : crease midwide, shallow to middeep ; cheeks 
angular: brush small, short. 
History. — Marouani wheat {197. S. P. I. Xo. T5TS) was introduced from the 
Province of Oran. Algeria, in 1901, through D. G. Fairchild and C. S. 
Seofield, for the United States Department of Agriculture. Concerning the in- 
troduction, they have written as follows : 
This wheat is cultivatef^l extensively on the elevated roUins: lands in the 
western part of the Province and is one of the best of the types of durum wheats 
cultivated by the Arabs. The quantity obtained is from the estate of M. J. 
