The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-07
THEY CRY FOR 1T.
Great Demand in Canada For
Kansas Wheat.
Found by Experiments to be the
Best ObtainabIe.
USED FOR SEEDING.
Thousands of Bushels Now Be-
ing Imported.
Duty and High Freight Rates
Interfere With Shipments.

Canadian millers are importing KAN
sas wheat for seeding, the wheat to be
sown this fall. This importation from
the United States is due to the fact that
experiments last year with the Kansas
product have thoroughly demonstrated
that it is the best producing seed that
has been tried in Canada from the
importations from all states during the
past ten years.
Not until last year did the Canad-
ians try the Kansas wheat. Some who
made the experiment the year previous,
on a small scale, were so much pleased
and had such good results that the KAN
SaS product gained reputation which
caused last year a scramble for the few
cars loads of seed sent from Kansas to
Ontario.
The failure of the experiment the year
previous was due to the fact that tha
car containing the Kansas seed was
damaged in transit and delayed so that
the wheat did not arrive until the SOW
ing season had ended. However, some
of the more eager farmers SOwed some
OF the Kansas seed very late and
harvested a crop averaging 25 bushels
per acre.
From the seed thereby saved and
from the shipments in 1899 more seed
was sown and the most conservative
estimates from Canada place the aver
age yield this year at S5 to 45 bushels
per acre.
The Canadian agricultural college ex-
Kansas and ranked it 100 per cent in
two experimnets, the highest ever re-
corded in that country, the Kansas
wheat being awarded the highest grade
over competition with Manitoba wheat
the purest and best wheat grown In the
far north.
The Goldie Milling company of Ayr,
Ontario, signs a letter from which the
following is an extract:
1T has been a matter of comment at
every millers' meeting for years In the
frlee Of arr hot
gradually deteriOrating. becoming poor
and poorer in milling and baking
qualities. The millers who have been
exporting flour find that their products
bring less money than any other flour
shipped to British ports; while at home
it has been necessary to bring in for
mixing purposes a large proportion OF
Manitoba wheat, year after year, be-
cause our own farmers refused to take
their own wheat alone. Indeed, during
the past year Ontario farmers have
been selling their wheat and buying
Manitoba flour.
ITO improve this condition Peter ShirS
of Waterloo county purchased a car OF
wheat he saw in Kansas. 1t was a long
time on the way and came almost too
late to be sown. What was sown stood
the winter well, yielded well and in
other respects turned out satisfactorily
"On the strength of this experiment a
number of millers have now arranged
to bring wheat from Kansas and about
20 car loads of the Kansas Turkey red
will be brought to this vicinity.
I'VE are trying to get the government
to rebate the duty on this wheat, and
if this is done we should be able to sell
the Kansas wheat at not over a dollar
The freight is higher than we expected
although we have worked for conces-
sions from the railroads at both ends"
At a meeting of Canadian millers at
Gait, Ontario, July 13, $500 bushels of
Kansas wheat was ordered for seed.
Bramm Bros, miIlers, one of the firms
interested, gets after the Canadian agrt-
cultural college by saying:
1.-The Kansas wheat is superior to our
own in every particular. 1t mills better
and furnishes better flour. The agricul-
tural college encourages the growth OF
soft mushy wheat, of which the inside
is all wool but not a yard wide. 1t
would be to the interests of the millers
if the college would close down and this
would be a better state than to have it
existing and encouraging farmers to
raise such trash as soft wheat The best
wheat we have seen heretofore is the
Michigan Amber which weighed last
year 63 and 64 pounds to the bushel, but
the Kansas product beat this going
from GA to S."
Shirk & Snider, millers at Bridgeport
Ont, say of the Kansas wheat which
they are shipping from here for seed:
Il was in Kansas last October ana
the bread made from Kansas Whead
surpasses any that 1 ever seen. The
Kansas wheat stood our severe winter
better than any ahve ever seen here"