Long heads, well filled with plump, heavy grains. 
Coker’s HUlfflED WHEAT 
BREEDING HISTORY 
This is a distinct and very superior new variety. 
This wheat originated from a cross of Early Red 
May X (Hope x Hussar). At our request this cross 
was made in the spring of 1932 by Dr. C. 0. 
Johnston, U. S. D. A., Wheat Investigations, at 
Manhattan, Kansas, and the hybrid seed sent to 
us that fall. The object in this cross was to breed 
a wheat that combined the yield and adaptability 
of the Red May with the. mildew and rust resist¬ 
ance of Hope X Hussar. During the period 1934 
through 1936 thousands of heads were selected, 
planted in head-to-rows, and the best selected 
from these and put back into head-to-rows each 
year. From 4000 such selections in head-to-rows 
in 1936 and 1937, 175 were selected for variety 
testing and increase. 
14.2 LBS. SEED PRODUCED 64 BUSHELS 
The following year, 1938, 27 of these were 
saved for increase and further testing. Coker 39-3 
was by far the most outstanding of the 27. We 
were struck with its profuse tillering, excellent 
winter type, by its high mildew and early leaf 
rust resistance; later by its long, well filled heads, 
its stiff straw and apparent high yield. We had 
1.6 acres planted in this strain. This was sown 
with 14.2 lbs. of seed and produced 64 bushels of 
cleaned wheat or at the rate of 40 bushels per acre. 
Showing storm resistance of Hardired wheat as compared with two sister strains. 
