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U.S.DEPARTMENT' OF AGRICULTURE
1575 BUL 9 lfETI
596
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief.
June 20, 1914.
THE CULTURE OF WINTER WHEAT IN THE
EASTERN UNITED STATES.
By CLYDE E. LEIHTY,
Agronomist in Charge of Eastern Wheat Investigations, Ofgce of Cereal
Investigations.
INTRODUCTION.
The region under discussion in this bulletin includes the humid
winter-wheat districts, comprising mainly the States east of Ne-
braska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, with a small eastern portion
of each of those States and excepting the New England States. This
region is shown by shaded
lines on the accompanying
map (fig. 1). The bound-
ary of this region is some-
what arbitrary, as there is a
zone on the north in which
both winter and spring
wheat are grown and an-
other on the west where
conditions may be either
humid or semiarid. Within
this area the rainfall shown FIG. 1.-Map of the United States, showing by
by the numbered lines in shaded lines that portion of the humid wheat
region to which this bulletin is applicable. The
figure 1 is usually sufficient boundaries are somewhat arbitrary, there being
for crop needs without re- transition zones on the north and west. The
average annual rainfall in inches is shown by the
sorting to special methods numbered lines.
of tillage to conserve mois-
ture, such as are practiced on the Great Plains. In that part of the
area which lies west of the line of about 35 inches average rainfall,
the hard red winter wheats of the Turkey or Crimean type are prin-
cipally grown. East of this line the semihard and the soft red wheats
NoTm.-This bulletin gives directions for growing winter wheat in the eastern half
of the United States, including small portions of eastern Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas.
43202-Bull. 596---14
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Leighty, C. E. (Clyde Evert), b. 1882. The Culture of Winter Wheat in the Eastern United States, pamphlet, 1914; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc87570/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.