The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-13
GRINDING MACARONI WHEAT.
A Mill in Stevens County is Making Flour
From the New Cereal.

GRINDING MACARONI WHEAT.
A Mill in Stevens County is Making Flour
From the New Cereal.
II. w. Stone & Co. of Stevens
county have been grinding macaroni
wheat and several samples Of the
flour have been distributed about the
city of Morris for trial. Several Of
the ladies have baked bread from this
new flour and pronounce it entirely
satisfactory. The bread is not white
like bread made from common wheat
flour but is of cream color and
highly pleasing to the palate and will
no doubt become very popular. The
ladies that made this bread say it is
necessary to knead the dough thor
Oughly and work in all the -four pos
sible. Mr.. Stones mill is roller
mill and has been in operation for
many years and if he can make good
flour from macaroni wheat other
roller mills can do the same.
Macaroni wheat is destined to be-
come prominent among the wheat
growers of northern Minnesota. 1t
yields better on dry, arid land than
it does on wet, swampy land and
Stevens county seems we'll adapted to
this wheat. The soil is rich but in a
dry season crops suffer more than
they do in Mile Laos county. What
is called the divide or table land be-
tween the Mississippi river and the
Red river of the north extends into
the northern part of Stevens county
and water on the east side of the town
of Rendsville flows east into the
Pomme de Terre river and thence into
the Mississippi river, while the waters
on the west side of the town flow west
into lake Traverse and the Red River
Of the North. The soil on this plateau
running north from Stevens county is
nearly the same as is found in the
Dakotas and in dry seasons becomes
very dry and is thus adapted to grow
ing maccaroni wheat. I would advise
farmers ir Mile Laos county to ex-
pertinent little with this wheat before
raising it in large quantities. Mile
Laos county is largely timber county
with many tamarac: swamps. The
county is very little rolling but not
enough so to drain these swamps and
in wet seasons like the past two the
soil becomes too wet to be adapted to
the growing successfully of this
wheat. Robert Ayers has sown about
one acre of winter wheat as an expert
ment. The same can be done with
macarOni wheat
Not all of the large vegetables of
Mile Laos county were taken to the
fair. A few days ago Albert Jensen
of Milo found rutabaga in his field
that weighed sixteen pounds and we
have rutabaga at our place taken
rom the field of B. A. Bradley that
weighs eighteen pounds.
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On Oct. 5th the dinner table of Mr..
and Mrs. S. 3. Smith was adorned
with large head of lettuce similar to
those exhibited at the fair and it was
the second crop grown on the same
piece of ground this year, but per-
haps this is not worthy of boasting
for we have seen several fields of late
where two crops were growing, one Of
corn or potatoes and the other of
weeds, and the weeds were much the
largest crop.
Potatoes have rotted badly in this
section. We were in Benton county a
few days ago and found them rotting
as bad as they are in Mile Laos
county but the price of potatoes is so
small that farmers don't consider it
much of loss for it hardly pays to
dig and market them.
HOPEFUL HARRY.