Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-11-13

DEMAND In EUROPE FOR
lMACARONI wheat STRONG
Good Prices Prevail and France and
Italy Are the Chief Purchasers
Great Boon to the Farmers of the
West-Credit to Wilson.
William E. Curtis writes The Chica-
go ecord-Herald from Washington, as
follows:
1--WE shall receive in Marseilles,"
writes Consul General Skinner, "be-
fore the end of the year, something
like a million bushels Of macaroni
wheat from America, the first of that
variety to be shipped to France in
commercial Quantities. AS Marseilles
is the greatest market for hard wheat
in the world, the advent Of the United
States as the furnisher of raw material
Is regarded with great deal of inter-
est. I understand that the most of
this grain was grown on land which
will not produce the ordinary wheat.
A few years ago, when the macaroni
manufacturers of Marseilles asked us
for hard wheat it was discovered that
the variety they wanted was not
grown in the United States at all.
Thereupon Secretary Wilson of the de-
partment of agriculture consented to
take up the matter and has pushed it
with such energy and great success
that our farmers will soon be able to
supply the French and italian markets,
which are now almost entirely depend
ent upon the wheat fields of northern
Africa. The fact that we have taken
a million bushels at Marseilles this
year goes far to show that demand and
supply are in a fair way to adjust
themselves with great benefit to our
people.
ave will send 100000 bushels of
macaroni wheat this year to France,
Italy and other parts of Europe" said
Secretary Wilson, when called his at
tention to the dispatch of Consul Cen
eral Skinner. "'We will send 100000
bushels to the macaroni-makers of
France, and they are paying a prem
ium for it and will take all we can
send. This peculiar quality of wheat
continued the secretary, is not only
good for macaroni but is superior for
ordinary purposes, particularly for
countries like France and Italy, where
the people eat more bread and less
meat. The diet of French working
men, and the Italian also, is very
largely bread and wine and a few
olives, and hence they want good
bread-strong bread-bread that is
nourishing and muscle-building. This
macarom wheat, which we are just be-
ginning this year to send to France
and other countries of southern
Europe, Is richer in protein than any
other wheat. 1t is the best muscle
builder of any food We have. It
makes men strong, and, therefore, the
Europeans, who eat little meat, need
it more than we do, and are calling
for it; while our milfers have tried to
decry it,
"Where did this wheat come from
and how long have we been growing
it?"
The agents Of the agricultural de-
partment brought it from Russia and
northern Africa about five years ago.
replied Secretary Wilson, and we dis
tributed' the seed around among our
experimental farms and among farm
ers who were willing to give 1t careful
attention. until it has spread over a
considerable part OF the west, and has
extended the wheat area of the United
States more than q hundred miles into
the semiarid regions, and has enabled
our farmers to cultivate with profit
land which was supposed to be at for
nothing but pasture for wild steers.
It Is the best crop we know OF for a
dry climate. / would not recommend
It for an ordinary wheat country, but