Identifier: geographicdistri11plum (find matches)
Title: The geographic distribution of cereals in North America
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939
Subjects: Grain
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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belongs to the Lower Austral zone. (5) Bed Rust Proof or Texas Red Rust Proof.—Eeports from twohundred and one persons, residing in twenty-two States and Terri-tories, show this oat to be of very wide distribution. It is by farthe best-known variety of any grown in the Southern States, and willproduce a satisfactory crop when others are completely ruined bythe common oat rust. Its yielding powers are satisfactory, so that ithas gradually found its way from the Lower to the Upper Australzone. It is generally grown in Texas and the Southern States, whilefor a dozen years or so it has been extensively grown in Kansas. Itsucceeds well in North Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas,Missouri, southern Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. It is also reported asgrown in the Upper Austral in California, Oregon, Nevada, Montana,New Mexico, and Maryland. It is certainly well adapted to both theLower and Upper Austral, especially the former. (See fig. 3, p. 20.) 20 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CEREALS.
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CLOSED PANICLE OATS. 21 (b) CLOSED PANICLE OATS. (6) White Russian.—Reports were received from one hundred andeighty-four persons, distributed over thirty-three States and Territoriesand seven Canadian Provinces. Generally speaking this variety iscultivated almost entirely in the Transition zone, where it reaches itsbest and most profitable development, the reported yields ranging from35 up to 100 bushels per acre. It is much more largely grown tbanall other varieties together in the Northwest, in the Dakotas, Minne-sota, Montana, Manitoba, Assiniboia, Alberta, and British Columbia.It is reported as grown to a considerable extent in Michigan, Wiscon-sin, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Colorado, Ontario, New Bruns-wick, northern New England, West Virginia, northern Indiana, north-ern Illinois, Ohio, and Oregon. It is also reported from Arizona, NewMexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, andDelaware. Along the border of the Upper Austral and Transition zones th

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