. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 2 BULLETIN 450, U. S. DEPAjlTlVEENT OF AGRICULTURE. HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF GHIRKA SPRING WHEAT. The Ghirka Spring is the principal variety of beardless red spring wheat grown in Russia, particularly in southern Russia and the Volga River district. It forms a large part of the wheat exported from Russia.^ This wheat has been introduced into this country several times. During the period from 1898 to 1904, inclusive, eight lots were obtained by the Office of Cereal Investigations of the United States Department of Agr
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 2 BULLETIN 450, U. S. DEPAjlTlVEENT OF AGRICULTURE. HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF GHIRKA SPRING WHEAT. The Ghirka Spring is the principal variety of beardless red spring wheat grown in Russia, particularly in southern Russia and the Volga River district. It forms a large part of the wheat exported from Russia.^ This wheat has been introduced into this country several times. During the period from 1898 to 1904, inclusive, eight lots were obtained by the Office of Cereal Investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture. These lots are recorded as Cereal Investigations Nos. 1046, 1047, 1051, 1192, 1517, 1534, 2644, and 2646. Other importations of this variety of wheat have been made by Russian immigrants. Joseph Dukart, who settled at New England, N. Dak., brought a 2-pound lot from Russia in 1905. From the. Fig. 1.—Heads of eiglit varieties of wheat grown at the Dickinson substation: (1) Kubanka dimim; (2) Amautka durum; (3) Preston; (4) Ghirka Spring; (5) Kysting Fife; (6) Marquis; (7) Crossbred Bhiestem; and (8) Haynes Bluestem. increase of this, several thousand acres are now grown annually in western North Dakota as ''Russian" wheat. So far, however, the variety has never become commercially important in this country, though its acreage may be expected to increase. The Ghirka Spring wheat has been placed in the Fife group of spring common wheat by most writers, as its characters are essen- tially the same as those of the varieties of that group (fig. 1). It dif- fers from the Red Fife varieties in that it is earlier, has pubescent leaves, and the spike is a little more slender and distinctly more tapering at the tip. The kernel is slightly longer, a paler red, and a little softer. ' Carleton, M. A. Triticum vulgare. Ghirka. In U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Indus. Bui. 66 (Seeds and plants imported), no. 6002. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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