M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-03-05
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varieties OF Wheat

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less variety, and is very little known /;
we believe it is q winter wheat but is
not cultivated to any extent.
The Tea wheat is sometimes known
as the Siberian wheat. 1t is a spring
variety, and considered one of the best.
The berry is white, and it yieldsa pure
white -four. The straw is rather short,
and the heads of medium length, but
the grains are not closely packed, each
whorl being distinct and separate from
the one above it, giving the head a
lean, %unproliic, and light bearing ap-
pearance.
The Australian wheat is a winter
variety which has been introduced
within the past year. 1t is a large
stemmed, heavy strawed wheat, with
a very long, large berry. Several far.
mers have tried it in Michigan, and
some of them have found it to produce
largely. Still it has not become a ia
vorite. In the trials to which wheat
has been submitted for the past three
years, the Australian variety seems to
have been wiped out.
There are two varieties Of Tuscan
wheat, the Tuscan Bald, and the Tus-
can Bearded. Both are winter vari-
ehes, and were introduced from Tus-
cany into the State of New York in
1887. The berry OF both varieties is
large and white, and the heads are
large, compact and well filled. Both
varieties are tender, and liable to win
ter kill, and this defect has not per-
mitted either to become generally cul-
tivated. Where this has not happen
ed, or where the variety has been
acclimated, it has produced heavy
crops.
"White Flint" and "Soules wheat"
are two distinct varieties. The first
is supposed to have been originally in
troduced into New Jersey, in 1914,
from Spain. There is also a sort Of
traditional claim that it was brought
ont from the Black Sea. The straw
of the White Flint is Of medium
length, not SO large as hat OF some
other varieties, but tough, solid
towards the root, and not so liable to
lodge. The heads are a medium
length, with from thirty to forty grains
in each. The grain is white in color,
plump, not large, but solid, with a
thin skin. Mr., Rawson Harmon, OF
Wheatland, Monroe county, n. York,
states, that q valuable popularity is
found in it, and which nc other varie-
ty possesses to a like degree, and that
is the tenacity with which the berry
adheres to the chat. This variety al
SO is considered very hardy, and the
heaviest crop ever grown on the Gen
essee Flats was from this variety and
the Red Chaff Bald, the two giving
back, 6S bushels and 43 lbs. per acre.
The Soules Wheat" was first in
troduced to notice by Jonathan Soule
of P%errinton, Monroe county, n. Y,
in 1886 or 1887. This is a bald va
riety, having a straw ofmedium length
with heavy full head. The wheat
looks like a mixture Ofred and white,
and some heads have a red chat, and
some are white. The berry is white,
ofmedium size, very thin skin, and
yields a large proportion Of -four Of
the best quality to the bushel. 1t has
long been a favorite variety in Michi-
gan, but oflate it has d~eteriorated, we
think, owing to the want Of care in Sc
Letting the seed. The bluestem, and
the Canada Flint, or Canada Club, or
Hutchinson wheat, as the latter is
sometimes called, have been found
more prolific, and have takent the place
Of the Soule's wheat with many far
mers, while others have given up
white wheat altogether, on account OF
their inability to grow it, and have ia
ken to the Mediterranean as being
more hardy, and more certain to prove
profitable Michtgnn T2ymer.