ISSUE 97, WHEAT, Part 2: Register of Historic American Winter Wheats
Fulcaster Wheat—Great Lakes Staple Seeds
Register of Historic [pre-1900] American Winter Wheats
Name-awn-height feet-origin-bushels per acre-remarks
Amber no 3 named 1850s 30 doesn’t lodge
Andrew’s Red yes 4 Tennessee 1860s 30 early harvest
Australian White no 3.5 Australia 1870 40 Improved white lammas
Boughton White no 3.5 Virginia 1867 30+
Clawson Flint no 3.5 Ohio 1860s 40-50 white flint
Clawson Red no 3.5 1888 Clawson x 40 red flint
Diehl White no 3.5 Canada 1860s 40 rust
Early White May no 3.5 old landrace 25 winter kill
Fulcaster Red yes 3.5 Introduced 1886 35 cross Fulz x Lancaster
Fultz no 3.5 Bred 1870 45 excellent baking flour
Greeson White no 3.5 NC 1896 35-40 good milling quality
Golden Straw no 4.5 1810s Pennsylvania 30 fine quality flour, rust
Lancaster no 3.5 Pennsylvania 35 disease resistance
Little Red May Flint no 3.5 Virginia 1850s 30 Flint
Mediterranean red flint yes 3.5 Germany 1820 30 yellow flour
Old White no 5 landrace 20-30 late season ext 1870
Pennsylvania yellow yes 3.5 Pennsylvania 25-30 early harvest
Purple Straw (red) no 4 Virginia 1750 35 facultative [bluestem/Ruffin]
Quaker White yes 4 Pennsylvania 1830s 40 rust
Red Chaff no 4.5 landrace 30 1800 first record [Goens]
Red May no 4 Virginia 1830 25 resistant Yellow lammas impr
Shaker White no 3.5 New York 1840s 30 White May improved
Tappahannock White no 4 Pennsylvania 1840s 35 millable
Wheatland Yellow yes 4 Ohio 1850s 30 big grains, short awns
White May (lammas) yes 4 English Landrace 25-30 crashes in the east 1820s
White Mediterranean yes 3.5 cross Med x White 20-25 flint extinct 1880
Yellow lammas no 3 English landrace 25 [Virginia lammas]