. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 114 BULLETIN 1074, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. of Rochester, N. Y., to Russia to secure their best wheat. It was introduced in this section by a prominent mill in Indianapolis at .$ a bushel. They paid 1 cent extra for a few years to encourage its more general introduction. It has of late years sold at the seed stores at a 2-cent premium and does this year. It is hardy, smooth, medium hard, and very productive. The only fault I found in growing it 12 years is that it shatters when cut dead ripe, so that I oft
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 114 BULLETIN 1074, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. of Rochester, N. Y., to Russia to secure their best wheat. It was introduced in this section by a prominent mill in Indianapolis at .$ a bushel. They paid 1 cent extra for a few years to encourage its more general introduction. It has of late years sold at the seed stores at a 2-cent premium and does this year. It is hardy, smooth, medium hard, and very productive. The only fault I found in growing it 12 years is that it shatters when cut dead ripe, so that I often grow half of my crop Fultz, which can wait. Lately, however, I grow all Russian as, p. 7). The Red Russian variety was grown by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion as early as 1888 (113, p. 29). It was distributed widely by Peter Henderson & Co. (110), seedsmen, of New York City, and J. A. Everitt & Co. (89), seeds- men, of Indianapolis, Ind.» in the early nineties. Distribution. — Grown in> Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylva- nia, Tennessee, Texas, Vir- ginia, and West Virginia- (Fig. 43.) Synonym—Red Russian. Description. — Plant win- ter habit, late, tall; straw purple, weak to midstrong,, spike awnless, fusiform,, middense to lax, inclined; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, midwide; shoulders narrow to midwide, usually rounded; beaks wide, obtuse, mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 12 mm. long;' kernels red, short to midlong, soft, ovate to elliptical, tip end usually flattened, ventral, side slightly dished; germ small; crease narrow to midwide, shallow to mid- deep ; cheeks rounded; brush small, midlong, collared. China differs principally from Currell in being taller and later and in having a different shaped kernel, as shown in the descriptions. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of China wheat are shown in Plate XXIX, A. History.—In 1851 the Rural New Yorker gave the following ac
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