. Classification of American wheat varieties. Wheat; Wheat. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 163 Department of Agriculture in 1912 from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, through Cornell University. It "was introduced into Muskingum County (Ohio) by John Dent in ; The Red Chaff wheat mentioned above, however, may be only the Mediterranean variety, as Goens has been said to be a cross between Mediterranean and Gipsy made by a man named Goens in Ohio and afterwards developed by his son. Concerning the introduction of the variety into Shelby County, Ind., where
. Classification of American wheat varieties. Wheat; Wheat. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 163 Department of Agriculture in 1912 from the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, through Cornell University. It "was introduced into Muskingum County (Ohio) by John Dent in ; The Red Chaff wheat mentioned above, however, may be only the Mediterranean variety, as Goens has been said to be a cross between Mediterranean and Gipsy made by a man named Goens in Ohio and afterwards developed by his son. Concerning the introduction of the variety into Shelby County, Ind., where it now is the leading variety, Russell G. East, county agent, Shelbyville, Ind., has written as follows:x Answering your inquiry regarding Shelby Red Chaff wheat. The year 1887 a man named Hall living at Fountaintown, in this county, purchased a carload of seed wheat in Paulding County, Ohio. From this start this variety has become the common variety grown throughout the county and has been known locally as Hall, Red Hall, Red Chaff, and Red Chaff Bearded. Distribution.—Grown as Goens in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, and under the names of synonyms in Illinois and Pennsylvania. (Fig. 64.) Synonyms.—Baldwin, Cummings, Dunlap, Dunlop, Going, Hall, Miller's Pride, Owen, Red Chaff, Red Chaff Bearded, Red Hall, and Shelby Red Chaff. The name Baldwin is used locally for Goens wheat in Mad- ison, Pickaway, and Union Counties, Ohio. Cummings is the name of a wheat apparently identical with Goens which was reported grown for two years in the vicinity of Tippecanoe City, Miami County, Ohio, and Fte. 64.—Outline map of constitutes 50 per cent of the wheat of that vicinity, * ^iolLo1; the fst?rn 1 ' United States, showing according to C. A. Studebaker, of that place. Dunlap the distribution of Goens is the name under which a sample of wheat identical wheat in 1919. Esti- with Goens was obtained from the Indiana Agricul- mated area, 132,600 acres, tural Experiment Station in 1913. It
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