. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 84 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. Distribution.—Grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The distribution is shown in Figure 31. Synonyms.—Ber Ban, Bluestem, Bluestem Fulta, Economy, Everitt's High Grade, Grains o'Gold, Halver, Hickman, High Grade, Impr
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 84 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. Distribution.—Grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The distribution is shown in Figure 31. Synonyms.—Ber Ban, Bluestem, Bluestem Fulta, Economy, Everitt's High Grade, Grains o'Gold, Halver, Hickman, High Grade, Improved English, Im- proved Fultz, Jersey Fultz, Little Bed Jersey, McKennon, New Economy, Nixon, Perpetuated Fultz, Boosevelt, Bust Proof, Shamrock, Slickhead, Tennessee Fultz, Tipton Bed, and Winter Pearl. Ber Ban is a name used for Fultz wheat in Campbell County, Tenn. Blue- stem and Bluestem Fultz are names often used by farmers for Fultz wheat in the Ohio Valley, where the variety is extensively grown. Economy is the name under which a sample of wheat similar to Fultz was ob- tained in 1912 from the Cornell Univers'ty Agricultural Experi- ment Station. A variety was grown under this name by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station as early as 1900. Its further his- tory is undetermined. It is grown under this name in Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia. New Economy is grown in Tennessee and may have the same or a different origin. Everitt's High Grade and High Grade are names first used for Fultz by J. A. Everltt in 1886, while a seedsman at Watertown, Pa. When distributed, the state- ment was made that it was a cross of " Martin's Amber on a number of other ; This statement attracted considerable comment at the time (20, p. 706), and as the crossing was begun only four years previous to distribution it was shown that the statement was absurd and that the wheat distributed was principally the Fultz variety mixed with several other wheats. The firm, however, c
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