DISTRIBUTION OF WHEAT IN THE UNITED STATES 
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The estimated acreage and percentage of the total durum area occu- 
pied by the known durum wheat varieties in 1924 are given in Table 5. 
The identity or varietal name of much of the durum wheat grown 
is not known by the growers. It is for this reason that nearly 75 per 
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Fig. 16.— Distribution of durum wheat in 1924. Each dot represents 2,000 acres. Estimated area, 
4,195,704 acres 
cent of the durum acreage was reported merely as durum. Most of 
this is composed of the Arnautka and Kubanka varieties, which are 
the oldest and most widely grown. 
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Fig. 17. — Distribution 01 Kubanka wheat in 1924. Estimated area, 479,046 acres 
KUBANKA 
Although Kubanka is the best known of the durum varieties, much 
of its acreage is unidentified and was reported merely as durum. The 
distribution of the identified Kubanka in 1924 is shown in Figure 17. 
