The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-03-26

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| rich gravelly loan Of the Champlair
valley near Charlotte, Vermont, by
Cyrus g. Pringle. Defiance is IL
truth cross-bred from two en-
tirely different parents. Pringl<
began to increase this wheat per.
haps In the third generation before
the type was quite well fixed, but
| plenty we'll enough for the standards
of that day. As q consequence quite
q range OF types resulted and when
II first went into general culture
quite number OF queer Off-types,
sports or limitations kept showing up
for number Of years.
The mother Of Defiance traces
back to southern England and was
originated by F. p. Hallett OF Brigh-
ton In the sixties. He Ii the man
who first used the word pedigree as
applied to Wheats. This one Is q de-
cided club-shaped type with pretty
red grain, somewhat soft and he
called It the Golden Drop. 1t was
quite popular In England but never
amounted to much. Pringle got 1t
from Canada where 1t Is known as
Canada Club. The father 81 De-
fiance was a Dutchman from Ger
many and rather soft at that, but
white. II >came from Hamburg
from whence lots Of wheat emf
grated In those days. 1t had long,
coarse broad head, q big white berry
and g rank growing constitution with
good ability to stand on Its feet.
Good old White Hamburg has long
since been dead and buried to cul-
tiyatiOn, ait least under that name
but was largely grown on the Pa
cific slope during the early days Of
cereal culture there.
Now what did Blount do with this
Defiance. wheat? Blount and Pringle
wrote to each other In those days, In
the 7O's, and Blount received some
samples OF Pringle's wheats, among
them Defiance which he selected
and improved to type. Den sort he
picked out and renamed it Gypsum
No 800, one with a very nice long
head and q good grower. b. s. La
Grage Of Greeley, Colo, then mem
Der Of the state board, obtained a
bushel or tow from Blount. Ben
Preston, pioneer near Fort Collins
was the first to buy sack or two
from La Grange at $3 bushel.
Preson found it out-yielded all sorts
grown there before. But the millers
did not like it. TOO hard,' they
said. They were used to the soft,
white sorts. But the wheat spread
from Preston and the millers had to
try It. BY changing the machinery a
little and soaking they soon found it
would make more and better flour
than the old sorts. 1t was estab-
lished. From Preston has spread
most OF the stock grown in Colo
RADIO and adjoining states. Every
other year or 50 Preston would 20
through his fields and select d good
bunch OF the best heads for d new
start OF seed. Lots Of queer sports
Kept popping out for many years.
Quite bit came from the pound
lot bliss Sons advertised. Two
neighbors near Greeley obtained
pound OF Defiance and Champlain.
Inc latter was rather hard sort
with long coarse boards and they did
not like those heads anyhow So it
was dropped, but Defiance was in
creased and from this pound has
come a great deal of the stock in
northern Colorado. Professor Blount
also has had direct and tremendous
influence in making wheat growing
~ Australia possible. He started the
now deceased William Farrar on his |
ife-work OF wheat cross-breeding for
Australian conditions.