Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-18
RICHES IN NEW WHEAT.
Cereal for Mararoni Now Largely
 Exported to Europe.

Exported to Europe. | "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 MarseiIIes is the great est 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 interest. I under
 stand 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 department of agricul-
 ture 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 dependent 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 fair
 ad itrSf fhar1calxyaaf rrvfTI, benefit to our people,"
 "We will send 6,OO0O00 bushels of macaroni wheat this year to France, Italy and other parts of Europe" said Secretary Wilson when I called his at- tention to the dispatch of Consul Gen eral Skinner, writes William E. Curtis, the Chicago Record -Herald's Washing ton correspondent We will send B. 100000 bushels to the macaroni makers of France, and they are paying a pre- mium for 1t and will take all that we can send. This peculiar quality of wheat" continued the secretary, lis 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 workingmen, and Italians also, is very largely bread and wine and few olives, and hence they want good bread, strong bread, bread that is nourishfng and muscle building. This macaronl wheat which We are just beginning to send to France and other countries of southern Europe is richer in protein than any other wheat. It is the best muscle builder of any food we have. It makes men strong. and therefore the Euro peans. who eat little meat, need 1t more than we do and are calling for it, whine our millers have tried to decry it."
 Where did this wheat come from, and how long have you been growing itT
 The agents of the agricultural de- | partment brought 1t 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 far mers who were willing to give it care ful attention until 1t has spread over | q considerable part of the west and has extended the wheat area of the United States more than a hundred | miles Into the semlarid regions and has enabled our farmers to cultivate with profit land which was supposed to be tit for nothing but pasture for wild steers. It Is the best crop we know of for a dry climate. l would not recon mend it for an ordinary wheat coun- try, but it will flourish where other wheat will not grow It needs only ten Inches of rain for a crop. and a wide zone of hitherto useless land on the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains. which has had too little moisture for 1rdinary cereals and vegetables, yields large crops of the best quality of mac aroni wheat. It requires careful atten- iion, however It must De cultivated with patience and skill.
 There are two varieties of mac ironi wheat-that which comes from Russia being the best for four" said he secretary. ''and that which comes 'rom northern Africa being the best for do not see why we should lOt supply the greater part of the Flu 'Opean market with macarOui wheat. t would be good for the people over here, and It would be good for us.-