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BULLETIN 1498, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
tions developed by breeding operations, the former at the New York 
(Cornell) Agricultural Experiment Station, and the latter at the 
Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. Of these 36 varieties 
for which maps showing distribution are not given, increases in 
acreage amounting to 0.01 to 0.20 per cent of the total wheat acreage 
have occurred for Triplet, Portage, Hybrid 123 (club), Russian, China, 
Goens, and Forward. 
WHITE WHEAT 
The white (class 5) wheats ranked fourth among the classes in 1919, 
but fifth in 1924, when they comprised but 5.9 per cent of the total 
wheat acreage in the United States. The distribution of the common 
white wheats in 1919 is shown in Figure 72 and of the white clubs in 
Fig. 
72. — Distribution of common vrhite wheat (except Sonora) in 1919. Each dot represents 
2,000 acres. Estimated area, -1,009.542 acres 
Figure 73 . Figure 74 shows the acreage of the combined white- wheat 
class in 1924. 
There were 46 varieties of white wheat reported as being grown in 
1924, as compared with 49 in 1919. The following 13 varieties grown 
in 1919 were not reported in 1924: Canadian Red, Colorado No. 50, 
Cox, Longberry No. 1, Lynn, Mexican Bluestem, Pilcraw, Read, 
Treadwell, White Fife, White Wonder, Wilbur, and Windsor. Nine 
varieties reported in 1924 which were not grown in 1919 are as follows: 
Early Defiance, Emerald, Federation, Hard Federation, Honor, 
New Zealand, Powers Club, Quality, and White Federation. The 
varieties of the white wheat class reported as grown in 1924 are shown 
in Table 8. There are, in all, 75 registered varieties of white wheat, 
including 9 club varieties. Powers Club is a commercial white wheat 
which has not been registered. In addition 16 registered white wheats 
were not reported as being commercially grown in either 1919 or 1924. 
The four leading varieties of white wheat in the United States in 
1924 were Goldcoin, Baart, Hybrid 128, and Pacific Bluestem. Of the 
46 varieties of white wheat reported as grown commercially in the 
