. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. SPRING CEREALS AT MORO, OREO. 19 extent in Arizona and Washington, while Karun, Koola, and Talimka are new introductions not yet grown except in an experimental way. Heads of the six varieties arc shown in figures 9 and 10. Pacific Bluestem.—Pacific Bluestem (C. I. No. 4067) is the stand- ard spring wheat on the farms of the Columbia Basin. It usually commands a premium of 3 to 4 cents a bushel over other varieties on western markets. It is a fairly early spring wheat of medium height, with beardless spikes (fig. 9, B)
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. SPRING CEREALS AT MORO, OREO. 19 extent in Arizona and Washington, while Karun, Koola, and Talimka are new introductions not yet grown except in an experimental way. Heads of the six varieties arc shown in figures 9 and 10. Pacific Bluestem.—Pacific Bluestem (C. I. No. 4067) is the stand- ard spring wheat on the farms of the Columbia Basin. It usually commands a premium of 3 to 4 cents a bushel over other varieties on western markets. It is a fairly early spring wheat of medium height, with beardless spikes (fig. 9, B), white, glabrous glumes, and mid- sized, soft, white kernels. In the West it is called simply "Blue- stem," but it must not be confused with the Bluestems of the hard. Fig. 9. -Heads of varieties of spring wheat grown at the Moro substation: A, Little Club; B, Pacific Bluestem; C, Karun. spring-wheat belt in the northern section of the Great Plains area or with the Bluestems of the Atlantic coast. The exact origin of this variety is not known, but almost certainly it is an Australian wheat. It closely resembles Rymer and Warren, two varieties from New South Wales. It is also identical with the White Australian, formerly widely grown in California. Little Club.—Little Club (C. I. No. 4066) is the standard variety of club wheat in the western United States. It is a short, midseason to late variety, with very broad, short leaves. The beardless spikes are short, but broad and very compact, usually oblong in shape (fig. 9, A). The glumes are white and glabrous; the small kernels, white and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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