Title: Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Identifier: bulletinofusdep351375unit (find matches)
Year: 1913-1923. (1910s)
Authors: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture
Publisher: (Washington, D. C. ?) : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: American Museum of Natural History Library

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ALASKA AND STONER, OR MIRACLE, WHEATS. The chaff is usually without hairs, but sometimes it is hairy. Some have simple heads, like the common and durum wheats; others have branched heads. The poulard variety here discussed as Alaska wheat is fairly well known in the United States. It has branched heads and hairs on the chaff. It has been adver- tised many different times under many names, but has never become per- manently e s t a b - lished. On account
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Fig. 1.—Large, medium, and small heads of Alaska wheat. (About half natural size.) of the large, branching head it has always been easy to interest people in this variety. Heads of this wheat are shown in figure 1. EARLY HISTORY OF ALASKA WHEAT. Poulard wheat iii one or another of its forms is grown to some extent in the Mediterranean region of Europe. This variety of poulard wheat with branched head has been known in this country under many different names, xlmong them are Alaska, Egyptian, Eldorado, Jerusalem, Many-Headed, Many-Spikedj Miracle, Multi- ple-Headed, Mummy, Keed, Seven-Headed, Smyrna, Syrian, Wheat

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