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Table I .—Varieties of winter wheat found susceptible to the rosette disease, in experi¬ 
ments conducted in the crop year IQ21-22, at Granite City, III., and at Wanatah, Ind., 
grouped according to classes, with head characters for each and percentages of infection 
Variety. 
C. I. number, or source. 
Head characters.® 
Percentage of plants 
infected. 
Granite 
City, Ill. 
Wanatah, 
Ind. 
Hard Red Winter; 
Pesterboden— 
Budapest. 
C780. 
BWG. 
&T. 
T. 
Turkey—* 
Malakof. 
4898. 
BWG. 
b 0 
T. 
Soft Red Winter: 
Alabama (Wis. No. 81)... 
Brown Bearded. 
C781?. 
AWG. 
0 
T. 
3118. 
BRG. 
0 
2 
“ Brunswick” c, _. . . . 
Ind. Sta. 
b— 
98 
I 
China— 
Pennsylvania Blue- 
stem. 
Currell. 
C242. 
ARG. 
0 
3326. 
ARG. 
0 
T. 
Fulcaster— 
Stoner (Marvelous). . 
Fultz. 
3601?. 
BWG. 
0 
T. 
5208. 
AWG. 
2 
Do. 
■2 cq8. 
AWG. 
0 
1 
Do. 
102?. 
AWG. 
0 
T. 
Fultz (Kentucky Selec¬ 
tion), 
Gipsy— 
Niagara... 
6896. 
AWG. 
80-90 
1—2 
45 
0 
5307. 
BWG. 
Harvest Queen (Control). 
Harvest Queen. 
Granite City, Ill.. 
4882. 
AWG. 
AWG. 
9 S~ IO ° 
95 - IO ° 
95 _IO ° 
55 
5 ° 
Do. 
Kans. Sta. 
AWG. 
Harvest Queen— 
TCe^inger. 
Ind. Sta.d. 
AWG. 
5 
Illini Chief. 
co c6. 
ARG. 
5~io 
25 
1+ 
Do. 
Ind. Sta. 
ARG. 
Jones Fife. 
Ind. Sta. (R.25).. 
Ind. Sta. (R. 13).. 
3618. 
AWV. 
_ 
3 
Do. 
AWV. 
_ 
1+ 
T^eap . 
AWG. 
0 
T. 
Mediterranean . 
2222. 
BRG. 
0 
T. 
Do. 
2467 . 
BRG. 
0 
T. 
Mediterranean— 
Miller’s Pride. 
4865. 
BRG. 
75 
95-100 
95-100 
95-100 
0 
20 
Missouri Bluestem... 
Nigger . 
1912., . 
BRG. 
75 
90 
75 
1 
BWG. 
Penquite (Velvet Chaff).. 
Poole. 
2068. 
BRV. 
c6cj'? . 
ARG. 
Red May— 
Fnterprise. 
0 JO 
2 2QQ . 
ARG. 
0 
T. 
Red Cross. 
C2l8. 
ARG. 
0 
1-2 
Sel. from Ind. Swamp- 
Do. 
4834. 
BRG. 
95 ~ IO ° 
1 
40 
2 2 24. 
BRG. 
T. 
Selection No. 13631. 
4081. 
AWG. 
1-2 
2 
4808. 
(Club.) 
BRG. 
0 
T. 
Common White: 
Horjor . 
6161. 
ARG. 
0 
T. 
a Legend: A=*Awnless; B=Bearded; W=White chaffed; R-Red chaffed; G~Glabrous, or smooth 
chaffed; V=Velvet chaffed. 
b T«=*less than 0.5 per cent; o=*no disease; — «*not tested at that place. 
c Received by the Tndiana Agricultural Experiment Station from Brunswick, Germany. 
d Either a somewhat resistant strain or mixed somewhat with some similar resistant variety. 
e A strain descended from a single plant selection. Other varieties of the Eulcaster group to which this 
strain is similar are generally i m m u n e. 
