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Rio Grande only yielded ten. The former was good and the others 
very poor. 
Mr. Allen: I would inquire if it is the same color as the Fife. 
Colonel Warner: It is. It has not been known to rust under 
the most unfavorable circumstances. The head stands out and 
looks like a smut-head. The head is longer than the Fife; not as 
compact. The straw is more vigorous and it will stand a week or 
two after it is ripe. It ripens later than the Fife. I don’t know 
whether it is a hard or soft wheat, but in the general market it sells 
readily. It has every appearance of being a nice, hard, plump va¬ 
riety. 
Mr. Sherman: I live in that town and I have raised that kind of 
wheat two seasons. It has been raised there three summers. 
It was brought into the country by Mr. Judkins. I couldn’t 
tell from where. It originally came from Prussia, I believe. I 
am not certain, but think it came from the Patent-Office at 
Washington. It is all Colonel Warner says. Last year it was 
the only wheat I raised. It was the only wheat worth har¬ 
vesting. I had about fifteen acres, averaging about twelve or fif¬ 
teen bushels to the acre. Other wheat was not worth harvesting 
at ail. I will say that that wheat is not entirely cliintz-bug proof. 
It will probably withstand the bug better than any other wheat. 
Question: How many years have you known this wheat. 
Colonel Warner: Lt has been raised by Mr. Judkins for five or 
six years. 
Mr. Sherman: It is a soft wheat. Millers do not like it. It 
brings a No. 1 price. It has a very pretty, bright-looking straw. I 
never saw an} 7 straw look as bright as my straw did in the stack. 
I have been in mountainous countries where they have no rains, and 
my straw was like the straw they have in such localities—very 
bright. 
President Stilson: How is it with regard to lodging? 
Mr. Sherman: I think it is less liable to lodge than other wheat. 
When it lodges it don’t crinkle. You want to sow about the same 
number of bushels to the acre as the Fife. My experience is that 
if I had sown two bushels to the acre, this year, it would have been 
better. It is quite a large kernel and the larger the kernel the 
more wheat you should sow. 
