44 BULLETIN 1498, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 7. — Estimated acreage and percentage of the total area occupied by each 
variety of soft red winter wheat in 192 4 
[The asterisk in parentheses (*) indicates a variety reported as grown but occupying less than 0.1 per cent 
of the total wheat acreage] 
Variety 
Fulcaster 
Fultz 
Poole 
Mediterranean 
Trumbull 
Leap 
Red Wave 
Harvest Queen 
Red May 
Red Rock 
Currell 
Nittany (Pa. No. 44) . 
Rudy 
Jones Fife 
Nigger 
Purplestraw 
Gladden 
Goens 
Triplet.. 
Flint 
Fultzo-Mediterranean 
Gipsy 
Fulhio 
Diehl-Mediterranean . 
China 
Portage 
Rice 
Red Russian 
Hybrid 123 (club) 
Russian Red 
Red Indian 
Coppei (club) 
Acreage 
816, 534 
786, 971 
050, 023 
599, 967 
593, 427 
511, 774 
435, 198 
403, 495 
399, 915 
342, 671 
259, 290 
258, 532 
250, 801 
209, 222 
197, 380 
116, 340 
100, 843 
100, 688 
100, 627 
100, 377 
86, 878 
82, 223 
82, 201 
59, 095 
57, 671 
57, 320 
54, 560 
52, 287 
51, 808 
50, 474 
26,483 
23, 754 
Per 
cent 
17.3 
17.1 
10.0 
5.7 
5.7 
4.9 
4.2 
3.9 
3.8 
3.3 
2.5 
2.5 
2.4 
2.0 
1.9 
1.1 
1.0 
1.0 
1.0 
1.0 
Variety 
Odessa 
Red Clawson 
Russian 
Penquite 
Grandprize 
Rupert 
Mealy 
Mammoth Red 
Climax 
Rural New Yorker No. 6 
Forward 
Valley 
Wheedling 
Illini Chief — 
Ashland. ... 
Oakley 
Walker 
Prosperity 
Gold Drop 
Sol 
Lof thouse 
Imperial Amber 
Zimmerman 
R ochester 
Fleming 
Red Chief 
• Total reported 
Varieties not reported 
Total soft red winter 
Acreage 
10, 474, 803 
742, 047 
Per 
cent 
0.2 
.2 
.2 
.1 
.1 
1 
.1 
.1 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
100 
Estimates of the acreage and the percentage of the total reported 
soft red winter wheat acreage occupied by each variety in 1924 are 
given in Table 7. Of 58 varieties listed, 3 make up nearly half of the 
total acreage of this class 
of wheat, each of these 
3 being grown on more 
than a million acres. 
Seventeen other varie- 
ties were each reported 
as being grown on more 
than 100,000 acres in 
1924. There are 85 reg- 
istered varieties of soft 
red winter wheat. In 
addition, many other 
names were included in 
the reports received. In 
most cases these were 
regarded as synonyms 
and were included under 
the standard name 
adopted for the variety. 
The ' three varieties, 
Fulcaster, Fultz, and 
Poole, occupy 44.4 per 
cent of the total acreage of soft red winter wheat. Selections from 
these that have become established as important varieties occupy a 
Fig. 32.— Distribution of Fulcaster wheat in 1919. 
area, 2,576,000 acres 
Estimated 
