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Rh No. 13. Pacific Bluestem, an Australian variety, somehow misnamed "bluestem," is the leading soft white spring wheat of the Pacific area.

No. 14. Dicklow, a soft spring wheat cultivated under irrigation in Idaho and elsewhere, produces a remarkably large head. It was originated by a Utah farmer, Dick Low, through selection from variants of a California Club Wheat.

No. 15. Marquis Wheat originated in Canada, by selection from hybrids of a hard, red wheat from Calcutta, India, and Red Fife Wheat. It is the leading, hard, red, spring wheat of the Northern Great Plains area.

No. 16. Red Fife Wheat is one of the principal hard spring wheats of the Great Plains Region. It originated in Canada among a few plants, from a sample winter wheat from Russia. It now represents a parent stem from which many varieties of northern wheats have been derived.

No. 17. Kitchener Wheat is another hard, spring wheat of the Red Fife type from the plains of the Canadian northwest.

The varieties of common wheat are very numerous. According to a survey by the Department of Agriculture over two hundred, well defined kinds are recognized in the United States. There are bearded and smooth wheats, hard and soft, red and white, spring and winter, etc. Of the common wheats shown in the illustration (Nos. 11 to 17) Turkey Wheat is the only bristly, bearded, or awned form, the others are almost awnless or entirely beardless. The well-known division of wheats into spring and winter wheats has reference to their resistance to cold, but also to ability to mature their seed in a single, short growing season. The grasses from which the cereals are derived are