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34, FULTZ, O. E. S. 
Synonyms: Finley, O. E.S.; Heaghe’s Prolzfic, O. EK. 5S. 
Rocky Mountain, O. E. 8.; Travis, jO. E. 8. 
Yellow Blue Stem, O. HK. 5S. 
Spring growth good and well matted: Straw yellow; Culms stout, erect: 
Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, fairly compact, slender, nearly square, 
tapering: Grain dark amber, small to medium, short, fairly plump: Thrashes 
hard from glume. 
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Culm : average height 3 feet 6 inches; diameter 3-16 to 
1 5 inch, average 1-5. 
Leaves : per culm 4; length 3 3-4 to 10 1 2 ‘inches, aver- 
age 7 1-2; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 1-2 ; 
lower 1-4 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle : average length 3 1-4 tinches; average thickness 
3-8 inch; breadth 1-2 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8; spikelets. 
per panicle 11 to 18, average 15; grains per spikelet 2 to 4, 
and very variable ; one thousand weigh 509 grains. 
This variety was discovered by Abraham Fultz,! of 
Mifflin Co., Penn., in a field of Lancaster wheat, in the 
summer of 1862. It has been widely distributed by the U. 
S. Department of Agriculture, and is to-day one of our best. 
known varieties. 
35. FULTZO-CLAWSON, BRAD. 
Spring growth backward, very decumbent, not stout: Straw yellow: 
Culms fairly stout, erect, excepting a slight decumbency at base: Panicles. 
beardless, white, glabrous, very loose, flattened, slightly tapering: Grain 
very dark, extra large, long, plump or slightly shrunken: Thrashes hard 
from glume. 
Culm : average height 3 feet 6 inches; diameter 1-8 to 
1-4 inch, average 3-16. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 3 to 12 1-2 inches, average 7 
1-2; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 7-8 inch, average 1-2 ; lower 
1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-8. 
Panicle: average length 4+inches; average thickness. 
3-8 inch; breadth 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 1-2; spikelets. 
per panicle 13 to 18, average 16; grains per spikelet 2 to 5, 
average 2; one thousand weigh 810 grains. 
36. GOLD DUST, CRIST. 
Synonym: Extra Early Oakley, Dep’t Ag’l. 
Culms fairly*stout: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, loose to compact, 
tapering: Grain medium dark amber, short, plump, medium to small: 
Thrashes very well from glume. 
1U. 8S. Dep’t Ag’l Report, 1871, p 133. 

