Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — Mediterranean Wheats. [ARTICLE]

Mediterranean Wheats.

The red wheats are becoming more in demand each succeeding year, owing to the new process for making flour by means of rollers. There are two distinct varieties; the Lancaster or bearded, a red chaffed wheat, and the velvet chaffed or early Michigan; both of the above-named wheats are also called by other names in Afferent provinces. t There is also a smooth red-chaffed wheat which was extensively distributed by the Agricultural Department at Washington City, under'the name of red Tappahannock, and called by some parties Hickman red, which is of a glutinous nature and grinds like the true red wheat. These wheats are-superior to the amber wheats in this, that the flour from them makes a sweeter and stronger bread than the light, starcky amber wheat, and the flour sells alongside of the famous spring-wheat flour of the Northern Pacific ltailroad country. The red wheats are also good yielders to the farmer, and more reliance can be placed in the crops Jdtpn those of the amber wheats. f? The objection that the bearded variety is troublesome to bind is now avoided by cutting the crop with self" binding machines,and another objection that they scatter in harvesting, or that they sprout easily, could probably be overcome by more care on the part of farmers.