. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 59 PROHIBITION. Description.—Plant winter habit, midseason to late, midtall to tall; stem glaucous, white, strong; spike awnless, linear-oblong to subclavate, rniddense, erect to inclined; glumes glabrous, white, midlong, wide; shoulders narrow to midwide, oblique to rounded; beaks wide, obtuse, to mm. long; apical awns few, 1 to 15 mm. long; kernels white, midlong, soft, ovate, humped; germ small; crease, wide, middeep; cheeks rounded; brush small, midlong. The disti
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 59 PROHIBITION. Description.—Plant winter habit, midseason to late, midtall to tall; stem glaucous, white, strong; spike awnless, linear-oblong to subclavate, rniddense, erect to inclined; glumes glabrous, white, midlong, wide; shoulders narrow to midwide, oblique to rounded; beaks wide, obtuse, to mm. long; apical awns few, 1 to 15 mm. long; kernels white, midlong, soft, ovate, humped; germ small; crease, wide, middeep; cheeks rounded; brush small, midlong. The distinctly humped kernels is a character which can be used to distin- guish this variety from the other soft white wheats of the Pacific Northwest. Spikes, glumes, and kernels of this variety are shown in Plate VIII, A. History.—B. H. Irvine, a pioneer in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, dis- tributed the variety in that State. He obtained, through a Dr. Crawford,. Fig. 19.—Outline map of the United States, (showing the distribution of Martin wheat in 1919. Estimated area, 37,800 acres. several varieties from the Commissioner of Agriculture for trial, about 1885, and grew them on his farm about 9 miles northeast of Scio, in Linn County. One variety proved superior to anything then grown in the vicinity. Having forgotten the name of the variety, he called it Prohibition, as he had just be- come an ardent member of that political party. Later he claimed to have found the descriptive sheet which accompanied the original seed and learned that the name was " ; A Rickenbrode wheat was reported as a new variety tested at Mount Pleasant, Ontario County, N. Y., in 1883 (150). It was distributed in the Western States by the Commissioner of Agriculture about 1885 and is without doubt the wheat referred to. Nothing further is known concerning its origin. Distribution.—Grown in Linn and Marion Counties, Oreg., principally in tli*' Red Jlills section of the Willamette
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