The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-02-03
Progress with
Durum Wheat

been studied long enough to know
whether durum can be successfully
grown in all parts of Colorado sea.
son after season. The present season
reports from thirty of the ffty-nine
counties of the state show very salts
factory harvest reports. This being
in a measure a drouth resisting
wheat will mature a crop where
moisture content of soil is not suffi-
cient TO mature soft wheats.
OF course this wheat must have
some moisture, but what the mini
mum amount is, in our climate, is yet
TO be determined. We have instances
this season where wheat has beer
made with a crop season rainfall be-
low the normal, although most sec.
tons Of the state, this year, show
more than the average crop season
rainfall.
The agronomy department of the
Colorado Experiment Station pro-
poses to continue its experiments to
see just how far out on our semi-arid
lands this wheat can be sown with
reasonable assurance of a harvest,
season after season. Because some
few have doubted about a market for
this wheat, since Colorado millers at
present decline to use 1t, | desire
to give the public the benefit of these
market facts, which | have gathered
by correspondence with the grain
centers of the union. We nave sent
samples of Colorado grown Kubanka
durum to the markets of Omaha,
knnrnc GifH O. A,f. T,,n;ln.tt
Chicago and Minneapolis to find it
rank as best grade and a durum mar.
ket topper at the latter named mar.
ket. From u. S. Cerealist Carleton
of Washington, d.. C., under date of
October 90, | have the following:
ut will undoubtedly be interesting
TO you to know that inside of three
weeks 5000, 900 bushels of durum
wheat have been shipped to Marsei)-
les, selling at a good price and grad.
lbs all No. ! (6,0OO,0O0 bushels of
this years crop has already been eX-
ported 10 France, Italy, Spain and AL
geria). Twenty thousand bushels of
this wheat were grown by Mr.. S.
Glover Of Glover, North Dakota, and
sold at nc a bushel in Duluth. Mr..
Glover has sold in all $4,000 bushels
at Duluth this season.
From Fould's Milling Co. of CinCin-
natl, Ohio: The sample OF durum
wheat Is certainly very fine, II
looks as If it ought to make a super.
Tor grade OF macaroni. We have pur-
chased a great deal Of this wheat
already this season. We got two
narS from NNaofarp gan,a. ,,l haSyn
also purchased considerable of this
. wheat from North and South Dakota,
but none Of this wheat dakota
wheat) has reached us yet. We have
milled durum wheat for about four
or five years. We did not put in any
additional or different machinery
than We were using for ordinary
-four. We grind the -four only into
Semolina, which we use in our own
manufacture of macaroni. We are
convinced that macaroni m~anufact-
ured from the Semolina made from
this durum wheat Is far superior to
any ever made in this country be-
fore and we believe there will be
quite a field for it in that line" This
firm makes from 5000 to 5000
pounds of macaroni per day.
II we can keep our durum pure
n of good quality, this market once
opened will remain a constantly in.
creasing one. Do not grow this
wheat on irrigated lands. neither
think that any dry land can be
cropped to durum. The market is
strong at present and indications are
that the unjust discrimination of past
seasons against this wheat are be-
ing removed and this wheat of the
semi-arid West and Northwest is
steadily coming into public recogni.
ton.
II is another proof that worth wins
after a time, II persistent enough.
Exporters and grain merchants hay.
inE raeeknise9 durMm az an e1nort