Registration of Improved Wheat Varieties

The registration plan of the American Society of Agronomy provides for registration of new varieties on the basis of performance, preferably at state or federal experiment stations. In order to be approved for registration a new variety als0 must be grown commercially or be of value and used in wheat breeding. Since the pub-" lication of the "Classification of American Wheat Varieties" by Clark, Martin and Ball (2), ~ numerous new varieties have been developed -and grown. Applications for the registration of most of these have been received by the committee. For those which have been ap’proved, registration nttmbers have been assigned and certificates of registration have been issued to the applicant. The varieties approved, together with their registration numbers, are as follows: