The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-31

the Clawson, and many of the millers
take strong ground in favor of this pop.
uIar variety. Certainly, the analyses of
DIR. Kedzie show nothing disparaging to
the Clawson and when we consider its
yielding qualities and its less liability
to be injured by insects aud other causes,
it would seem folly for the farmers to
discard it because handful of millers,
who are perhaps interested in some other
variety, unite in condemning it.
Fred Thoman, of this city, says that
the yield of -four from the Clawson is
just as great as from any other variety,
and the quality as good He raised his
voice against the resolution in the State
Association but matters seem to have
been foreordaiued, and the Clawson was
condemned. The millers' convention
seem to have based its action on an an
alyses of different varieties of wheat
made by Prof. A. B. Prescott, of the
Michigan University. In his analyses
of the grain he fixed the albumnoids in
the Treadwell at 15.4S per cent, Delhi
1854, and Clawson at 1888. BY con.
sulting the result of DR.. Kedzies an
alyses of the -four of these three varie.
ties it will be found that the Delhi gave
in albumipoids 11.31 per cent, Clawson
.53, and Treadwell 1858.
So much for the analyses. Now let
us see what there is in the history of the
controversy. The raid upon the Claw
son was commenced last year, and many
farmers were prevented from sowing it.
The Michigan Farmer took the matter
in hand and consulted George Geddes,
of Syracuse, one of the first agricultural.
lists in the country, in reference to the
matter. This inquiry resulted in cer-
tifcates from the millers of Syracuse,
Baldwin's mills, and others, testifying
to its valuable qualities as hour-pro
ducing wheat. In that section of New
York The Clawson or Seneca wheat is
raised almost to the exclusion of other
varieties. 1t was claimed last year that
these spasmodic efforts were purely
speculative, which probably approached
very near the truth, and there the mat.
ter rested until the millers' association
by its recent action again " stirred up
the animals"
The strangest part 10 the whole affair
is the fact that Mr.. Hatch, the Lowell
miller, who offered the condemnatory
resolution, afterward published card
in the Lowell Journal in connection with
his partner, in which they say We
are paying as much for the Clawson as
any wheat sold in our market, and shall
continue to do so in the future as we
have in the past, until we find some
other variety better for Touring pur.
poses"
There is no question that the Claw
son wheat is superior wheat to yield.
The Michigan Farmer says that A. S.
Brooks, of Novi, one of the most sue
cessful wheat growers in Michigan, pro-
nounces in favor of this variety From
nine acres the present season he har-
vested AIS bushels, and had not por-
ton of the field been badly lodged he
thinks the yield would have been sixty
bushels to the acre. Treadwell wheat
in the same vicinity yielded only nineteen
bushels to the acre.
A Richland correspondent of the
Kalamazoo Telegraph says his township
would have been thousands of dollars
better off had the discussion about the
Ulawson wheat been kept out of the pa
pers last fall, for many farmers were
deferred from sowing it. Generally it
Yields from ne.third to twice as much
as the other kinds. He thinks man
would be foolish to raise Gold Medal
and get six or eight bushels to the acre
when he is pretty sure of 20 and 30
bushels of Clawson, even though cru.
sade of interested spectators should sue
ceed in putting the price of the later
down few cents per bushel.
There was large meeting Of Grang-
ers at Kalamazoo on August IL and the
various varieties of wheat were gener-
ally discussed. To sum up the general
opinion was that the Clawson is the best
variety of wheat ever raised, and most
always escapes the ravages of the in
sects. AS to the quality of -four made
from the Clawson, the wives of the far.
mers made no complaint.
The above instances are given, among
many that have met our eye in our State
exchanges to show the almost universal
favor with which Michigan farmers and
millers look upon the Clawson wheat,
which has been so wautonly assailed
from few sources. The only condem-
natory voice which we have heard raised,
besides the millers' convention, comes
from the Grand Bapids Eagle, which
says that I" Mr.. Voight, one of the pro-
prietors of the Star mills, in order TO
make practical test of the ClawSon
wheat, had some of it ground into flour,
and it baked iuto bread at the same
time by the same process, and 10y the
same person. The result in this case proves
that the millers are correct in their es'
innate of the relative value of Clawson
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