DISTRIBUTION OF WHEAT IN THE UNITED STATES 
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In all, 26 varieties of hard red winter wheat have been registered. 
These include all of the commercial varieties except Nebraska No. 6. 
In 1924, 10 of the recognized varieties were not being commercially 
grown or at least not extensively enough to be reported. These varie- 
ties are Ashkof, Hussar, Iowa No. 1946, Minard, Mosida, Newturk, 
Pesterboden, Sherman, Regal, and Yaroslav. 
Table 6. — Estimated acreage and percentage of the total area occupied by each 
variety of hard red winter wheat in 1924- 
[The asterisk in parentheses (*) indicates a variety reported as grown but for which an estimate of acreage 
either was not given or if given was less than 0.1 per cent of the total wheat acreage of the State] 
Variety 
Acreage 
Per 
cent 
Variety 
Acreage 
Per 
cent 
14, 332, 147 
4, 314, 962 
1, 519, 992 
52, 550 
36, 970 
22, 852 
13, 552 
9,205 
8,769 
4,942 
3,123 
70.5 
21.2 
7.5 
.3 
.2 
.1 
.1 
.1 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
1,272 
1,259 
557 
532 
34 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
Blackhull. 
Michikof . . ... 
Alton ... 
(*) 
(*) 
(*) 
Montana No. 36 ... . 
Ridit 
Total reported __ 
Ilred (111. No. 10-110) 
20, 322, 718 
730, 130 
100 
Varieties not reported... 
Total hard red winter 
Iowa No. 404 
Wisconsin Pedigree No. 2 
21, 052, 848 
The distribution of Turkey wheat in 1919 and in 1924, including 
varieties grown imder the name Kharkof and many other synonyms, 
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all varieties of wheat. The acreage of Turkey wheat decreased from 
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