MONTANA-GROWN WHEAT. ity 
COMPARISONS WITH THE HARD WINTER WHEATS OF OTHER SECTIONS. 
How does the quality of Montana-grown hard winter wheat com- 
pare with that grown in other sections? Outwardly the kernels 
appear to be a little larger, more uniform, and somewhat more plump 
on the average. The kernels are very hard and vary in color from 
dark amber to reddish. The “voy berry,’’ so prevalent in some 
sections, is not common in 
Montana, although it has 
occasionally been observed. 
That thereis almost as great 
a variation in the charac- 
teristics and quality of the 
wheat of this State as in all 
other sections of the United 
States where hard winter 
wheat is grown is shown in 
figures 6 to 13. 
In milling quality, re- 
stricting the meaning of 
this term to flour yield, 
the Montana-grown wheat 
resembles the hard winter 253 5-9 = 
wheats of the central Plains 
area very closely. This is 
evidenced by a compari- 
son of the data shown dia- 
orammatically in figures 6, 
7, and 8. The flour yield 
does not appear to average 
quite as high in the com- 
parisons made in figure 6, A A 
but thisis readily explained OO Spiraea mod Tana OOM FECTION 
by the fact that on the av- Fic. 6—Diagram comparing the milling quality (yield of 
straight flour, bran, and shorts, and color of flour) of Mon- 
erase the Montana samples tana hard winter wheat with that of the hard winter 
were considerably higher in wheat of other sections. The results of tests of samples of 
moisture content, a factor the crops of 1908 to 1913, inclusive, are shown. 
which very materially influences the flour yield, as is clearly illus- 
trated in figure 7. In flour color the Montana wheat shows up to 
advantage, as none of the samples tested were seriously injured by 
the presence of smut or from field damage, as was the case with a 
number of samples from other sections. | 
Figure 8 shows that in weight per measured bushel the Montana 
wheat has about the same range as that observed in the wheat from 
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