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Title: American farmers' manual
Identifier: americanfarmersm19pete_1 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Farms Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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22 PETER HENDERSON A CO., NEW YORK- Two Grand ^ WINTER WHEATS RURAL NEW YORKER Bearded AND, Beardless. THESE are both the result of upwards of twenty years' thoroughly scientifie crossing and careful selection at the hands of the late Mr. E. S. Carman, the well-known editor of the Rural New Yorker, and raiser of many of the most valuable agricultural introductions of recent years. These two varieties have been selected from hundreds of crosses and varieties as superior in all desirable qualities. They have now been grown in most wheat-growing sections, and most flattering testimony has been received by us regarding their merits. "Bearded" Rural New yorRer (Number 57) has heavily-bearded heads which are beautifully symmetrical, being pointed at the tip, broad in the middle, and tapering towards the stem. The straw is unusually tall and strong and stools freely, frequently having 35 to 40 stalks from a single grain. The heads are com- pact, averaging three kernels to a spikelet or "breast," and ten breasts to a side. The kernels are of medium size and of an attractive color, between the so-called "red" and amber, possessing the requisite degree of hardness for the production of the finest grade of flour, and is much sought after by millers. The chaff is clear white, with a trace of velvet sufficient to make it difficult for the green fly to attack it, and the heads do not mildew as the full velvet chaff varieties are liable to do. ((See CM*.) 75c.perpeck, $2.25 per bushel; 10-bushellots,S2.00 per bushel. ."Beardless" Rural New yorker (Number G) This beardless variety is a hybrid between Eye and Armstrong Wheat, though all traces of Eye have disappeared and it now appears a handsome, beardless Wheat. It succeeds and produces heavy- crops on poor, thin land, where Wheat could not be successfully or profitably grown, and it also has extreme hardiness to recom- mend it. When first raised, some years ago, the top of the culms was downy with Eye culms. This characteristic could not be fixed, so that for this vaiiety the culms having no down were alone selected. The gold-colored straw is -^ery thick and strong, easily supporting the heavy grain without breaking. The large amber kernels are placed four to a breast, eight breasts to a side, with long symmetrical heads having a brown chaff. (See cut.) One of our growers says: "It stools as strong as any wheat I ever saw. It had a vigorous, healthy growth all the season, and stood well without lodging. It is very hardv." 75c. per peck, $2.25 per bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.00 per bushel.
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Beardless Rural New Yorker (No. 6), Bearded Rural New Yorker (No. 57).

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