. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 153 to 5 cm. long; kernels dark red, midlong, hard, ovate to elliptical; germ small to midsized; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, short. Pioneer differs from Preston chiefly in being several days earlier and in hav- ing a darker and harder kernel. History.—Pioneer is of hybrid origin, having originated from the progeny of a cross made in 1903 by Dr. C. E. Saunders, Dominion cerealist, at the Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, between Riga and
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 153 to 5 cm. long; kernels dark red, midlong, hard, ovate to elliptical; germ small to midsized; crease midwide, middeep; cheeks angular; brush midsized, short. Pioneer differs from Preston chiefly in being several days earlier and in hav- ing a darker and harder kernel. History.—Pioneer is of hybrid origin, having originated from the progeny of a cross made in 1903 by Dr. C. E. Saunders, Dominion cerealist, at the Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, between Riga and Preston. Distribution.—Grown in experiments at field stations in the northern Great Plains since 1915. It has proved to be a fair-yielding variety of high milling quality. It has not proved superior to Marquis, however, and has not become commercially crown in the United States. Description.—Plant winter habit, midseason to late, midtall to tall; stem white, weak to midstrong; spike awned, linear fusiform, lax, inclined to nod- ding; glumes glabrous, yellowish white with black-striped margins, midlong, wide ; shoulders midwide, usually oblique ; beaks 1 to 5 mm. long; awns 3 to 8 cm. long; kernels red, long, soft, usually elliptical; germ small; crease wide, mid- deep ; cheeks rounded; brush midsized, midlong. This variety is distinct in having black -tripes along the margins of the glumes. A spike, glumes, and kernels of Rudy are shown in Plate XLII, A. Fig. 60.—Outline map of a portion of History.—The origin of Rudy wheat has the eastera United States' showins . -,-,,,-,, ^ / ^r, „r^ the distribution of Rudy wheat in been recorded by Carleton (58, p. 65) as 1919 Estimated area> 399,400acres, follows: One of the best of the most recently produced varieties is the Rudy, which was originated at Troy, Ohio, in 1871, by M. Rudy, through a careful propaga- tion of the seed from a superior and a distinct stool of wheat found in a large field. Rudy wheat was not inclu
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