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BULLETIN 1183, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
varieties for the irrigated lands in the upper San Joaquin Valley of 
California and in southern Arizona. 
Nine samples of Sonora have been milled and baked; the results 
are shown in Table 60. It will be noted that the Sonora variety 
ranks lowest in crude protein and is very low in yield of flour, water 
absorption of flour, and volume of loaf. It is similar to the club 
wheats in milling and baking quality. 
Talimka. — The Talimka variety is of Russian origin. It is grown 
in the United States only as a mixture with Chill, which is identical 
with Talimka, except in having red kernels. Talimka has not pro- 
duced high comparative yields. It has been carefully tested at ex- 
periment stations but not distributed widely for commercial growing 
because it has several undesirable characters such as weak stems and 
it has only medium acre yields. 
Fourteen samples of Talimka have been milled and baked. The 
results are shown in Tables 60 and 69. The results presented in the 
latter table show Talimka to be considerably superior to the Pa- 
cific Bluestem in milling and bread-making qualities. But it is such 
a hard wheat that it is difficult to mill and it would probably not 
meet with favor with the milling trade if commercially produced. 
The variety has now been discontinued in the experiments at most 
experiment stations in the areas where it has been tried. 
Table 69. — Summary of milling and baking data on 10 samples of Talimka and 
10 comparable samples of Pacific Bluestem grown during the fire years from 
1917 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 percent.. 
Talimka. 
Pacific 
Bluestem. 
10 
10 
58.3 
56.2 
14.3 
14.5 
71.2 
66.5 
14.1 
15.9 
11.7 
17.6 
60.3 
56.3 
2,039 
1,851 
499 
486 
90.5 
86.7 
91.8 
89.4 
0.46 
0.52 
Percentage 
of Pacific 
Bluestem. 
103. 7 
98.6 
107.1 
88.7 
83.5 
107.1 
110.2 
102.7 
104.4 
102.7 
1 Average of 9 samples. r 
White Federation. — White Federation was developed from a 
selection of Federation at the Cowra Experiment Station in Aus- 
tralia. It was introduced into the United States in 1916 by the 
United States Department of Agriculture. It was first distributed 
for commercial growing in the fall of 1919 in California from the 
United States Plant Introduction Station at Chico, Calif., where 
it had produced good yields. A few hundred acres were grown in 
that State in 1922. White Federation differs from Hard Federation 
principally in having white rather than brown glumes. It differs 
from Federation in having shorter and harder kernels. The kernels 
are not usually quite as hard or translucent as those of Hard Federa- 
tion. It has not outyielded Hard Federation in most experiments. 
Twenty samples of the White Federation wheat have been milled 
and baked from samples obtained from experiment stations in the 
Pacific coast area of the United States during the four years 1918 
