. Classification of American wheat varieties. Wheat; Wheat. 118 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Illini Chief is very similar to Red May, but differs slightly in being taller and later. It was originally mixed with Jones Winter Fife and with pubescent brown-glumed strains, most of which were heterozygous. Illini Chief is re- ported to be very resistant to Hessian fly injury. Histot-y.—Illini Chief wheat was first distributed in the fall of 1915, by E. L. Gillham, Edwardsville, 111. He advertised the variety as resistant to Hessian fly, stating "that it does practically resi
. Classification of American wheat varieties. Wheat; Wheat. 118 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Illini Chief is very similar to Red May, but differs slightly in being taller and later. It was originally mixed with Jones Winter Fife and with pubescent brown-glumed strains, most of which were heterozygous. Illini Chief is re- ported to be very resistant to Hessian fly injury. Histot-y.—Illini Chief wheat was first distributed in the fall of 1915, by E. L. Gillham, Edwardsville, 111. He advertised the variety as resistant to Hessian fly, stating "that it does practically resist Hessian fly ; (95.) Further history of Illini Chief wheat is recorded as follows: Ed. Gillham, who was the first man to grow the wheat, bought the seed nine years ago from a neighbor by the name of Finley, and it is still known as Finley wheat in Madison County (31, p. 5). Finley was reported in 1919 from Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio. The name Finley was in use in the early eighties for an awnless variety with white, glabrous glumes and red kernels (81, p. 29). This wheat apparently has now gone out of cultivation. A second article in the Prairie Farmer by Dr. S. A. Forbes (90), State Entomologist of Illinois, contains the following sentence: " Mr. Gillham has traced his original stock to an Ohio farmer, who called it Early ; No wheat was reported under this latter name in the survey. Distribution.—Grown as Illini Chief in Illinois and Missouri and as Finley in Kansas and Ohio. Synonyms.—Early Carlyle and Finley. RED CLAWSON (EAELY RED CLAWSON). Description. — Plant winter habit, midseason, midtall; stem purple, strong; spike awnless, oblong to linear clavate, middense, erect to inclined; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, midwide; shoulders midwide to wide, usually square, sometimes rounded or oblique; beaks midwide, obtuse, to mm. long; apical awns few, 5 to 15 mm. long; kernels pale red, midlong, soft, ovate to elliptical; germ sm
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