Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-11-27

Years.
Increasing Demand Indicates a
Profit Maker Every
Year.
The following article On macaroni
wheat by w. L. Dudley in the Fessen-
den Press will be interesting to all
wheat growers in this state where the
raising of this variety is gaining in
acreage. On the Livingstone farms
near Melville the yield this year ran
about "a bushels to the acre. This is
not large yield, but the variety is
known as better ''off year crop" than
the common varieties Of wheat. L.
r. Casey who has taken some interest
in watching the development Of the
crop, says that in Ransom county
where the wheat has been grown long
est, that in dry years or seasons when
other kinds Of wheat, from various
causes, do not do we'll, the Macaronl
variety appears in favorable contrast;
and that experience here has shown
that it is essentially drouth-resist-
ing variety. In years when the COM
mon varieties Of wheat do we'll there
isl not great difference shown, but
the average results so far obtained
shows that the average results so far
obtained shows that the Macaroni
wheat gives about 10 per cent better
results than any Of the other varieties
in point Of yield. The fac. that the
Minnesota board of trade recognizes
it and gives it grade, shows it's value,
and the ready sale it has indicates
that it will be a commodity increas-
ing in value each year, and another
money making product for this favored
state. The article in question is as
follows:
A single township in North Dakota
harvested 10000 bushels of macaroni
wheat this year. Figures cannot be
obtained as TO what has been done
throughout the state in this direction,
but it may be safely stated that it
has already passed the experimental
stage, and there is an opportunity for
profitable farming In the cultivation
Of this cereal.
One instance, which came under
the, observation Of the writer, may
be given. Last year Thomas Dou-
gen planted 100 acres of his farm
near NorthwoOd to macaroni wheat
of the Arnautka variety, from seed
imported from Russia. Through
want Of information, the grain was
sOwn too thick, and was so crowded
in the field that the grain did
not develop as it should. The
yield of the 100 acres was 1900
bushels. Mr.. Dougen sold the
neighboring farmers last spring 1850
bsrhe!s for seed at LIS per bushel, and
sowed 400 bushels on his farm. Only
portion has been threshed at this
writing, but the yield is 26 to As
bushels per acre, Mr.. Dougen is also
the manager Of the Northwood flour
mill and is fixing up machinery for
grinding this wheat. He buys all Of
the wheat that is offered, gradingit as
Northern. The first car Of macaroni
flour manufactured in the state will
be shipped in . few days from this mill
to one Of the large macaroni factories
St. Louis to have it tested.
The Roller mill = trade paper, says,
editoriallv, that when the American
people once have a taste Of American
macaroni, fresh made from fresh mill
ed American macaroni wheat, they will
prefer it toany other. Its nutty flavor
will be a revelation to them. Hereto
fore they have had to be content with
imported macaroni which has been de-
teriorating for weeks in transit and in
store before reaching the consumer
or with macaroni made in this coutry
from unsuitable, ordinary bread
wheats.
The growing macar0ni wheat closely
resembles barley, in its rank growth
and Its boards, but the straw has on
closer inspection, more BLUSH cast
than barley. 1t grows from four to
five feet In height in some cases.
Among the favorable features Of this
wheat is the fact that 1t natures
week ea.lier than other vstieties of
wheat, rendering it safer. 1t is very
hardly and 10 leos liable to be Affected
by frost The yield 10 also uniformly
larger than the other varieties Of
wheat, in adjoining fields, produced