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BULLETIN 1198. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
MINTURKI 
The distribution of Minturki wheat in 1924 is shown in Figure 29. 
This variety was not reported in 1919, but in 1924 it was reported as 
being grown on 36,970 acres, 
comprising 0.2 per cent of the 
acreage of the hard red winter 
class. Minturki was reported 
chiefly in Minnesota, but there 
were small acreages in Nebras- 
ka, Iowa, and Wisconsin. 
OTHER VARIETIES OF HARD RED 
* WINTER WHEAT 
Fig. 
-Distribution of Minturki wheat in 1924. 
mated area, 36,970 acres 
Of the other varieties of 
Esti - hard red winter wheat shown 
in Table 6 and reported com- 
mercially grown, Iowa No. 404 and Alton decreased slightly in rela- 
tive percentage from 1919 to 1924, while Michikof, Montana No. 36, 
Nebraska No. 6, Nebraska No. 60, and Ilred increased. Michikof 
increased in Indiana, its entire reported acreage being confined to this 
State. _ Nebraska No. 6 and Nebraska No. 60 were both reported 
from Nebraska. The larger part of the acreage of Montana No. 36 
was in Montana, and a small area was reported in South Dakota. 
Kidit was reported from Washington, but no acreage was given. 
SOFT RED WINTER WHEAT 
The soft red winter (class 4) wheats are grown principally in the 
eastern half of the country, but are also grown to some extent in the 
Pacific Northwest. This class ranked second among the classes 
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Estimated area, 21,943,133 acres 
grown in 1919, but third in 1924, when it comprised 22.1 per cent of 
the total wheat acreage in the United States. The distribution in 
1919 is shown in Figure 30, and the distribution in 1924 is shown in 
