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ably less in crude protein content. In water absorption of flour, 
and in volume, weight, and texture of loaf, it is considerably inferior 
to Pacific "Bluestem, but it exceeds that variety in yield of flour and 
color of loaf and has a lower ash in the flour. The Goldcoin variety 
has been found to be one of the poorest varieties of white wheat for 
milling and bread making. 
Table 67. — Summary of milling and baking data on 12 samples of Goldcoin 
and 12 comparable samples of Pacific Bluestem grown during\ the four years 
from 1918 to 1921, inclusive. 
Descriptive data. 
Number of samples 
Test weight per bushel (mill-cleaned wheat) pounds. 
Crude protein content of wheat per cent. 
Yield of straight flour do. . . 
Yield of :shorts do... 
Yield of bran do... 
Water absorption of flour do. .. 
Volume of loaf cubic centimeters. 
Weight of loaf grams . 
Texture of loaf score. 
Color of loaf do. . . 
Ash in flour per cent . 
Goldcoin. 
Pacific 
Bluestem. 
12 
12 
58.3 
56.8 
12.3 
14.4 
70.9 
66.9 
12.3 
13.5 
16.8 
19.6 
54.0 
58.0 
1.675 
1,943 
476 
493 
85-8 
88.0 
89.0 
87.4 
0.47 
0.50 
Percentage 
of Pacific 
Bluestem. 
102.6 
85.4 
106.0 
91.1 
85.7 
93.1 
86.2 
96.6 
97.5 
101.8 
94.0 
Hard Federation. — Hard Federation was selected from Federation 
about 1908 by J. T. Pridham, Cowra Experiment Station, in New 
South Wales, Australia. It was introduced into the United States 
by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1915, and was 
first distributed in 1920 to farmers in Oregon and California. Fur- 
ther distributions have been made since, and about 6,000 acres of 
the variety were grown in 1922. It is a spring wheat which has 
proved to be a high-yielding variety under dry-land conditions in 
Oregon. In California it is grown from fall sowing and is well 
adapted to some soils. It is beardless and has glabrous, brown 
glumes, while the kernels are short, broad, thick, hard, and trans- 
lucent. 
Thirty-four samples of the Hard Federation variety have been 
milled and baked, representing the four crop years 1918 to 1921, in- 
clusive. Until 1920, almost all of the samples were obtained from 
the experiment stations in Oregon, California, Washington, and 
Idaho, but in 1921 several samples were obtained from experiment 
stations in the northern Great Plains area. Twenty-two samples can 
be directly compared with Pacific Bluestem. These comparable data 
are shown in Table 68. 
The data show the Hard Federation variety to exceed Pacific 
Bluestem considerably in all milling and bread-making factors. It 
has a high yield of straight flour, water absorption of flour, and loaf 
volume, and in all other respects is a first-class wheat for milling 
and bread-making purposes. It is one of the best of the white 
wheats. 
