American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1908-09-12
ALASKA WHEAT A FAKE.
People Advised Not to Pay Fancy
Price for Poor Variety.

sued warning against Abraham
Adams. of Juliaetta. Idaho. and his
Alaska" wheat, which he claims
makes 200 bushels to the acre. The
wheat has been tested at the Agricul-
tural College of Colorado, and has been
found 10 be an undesirable variety. one
which produces good yield, but is
greatly inferior for -four making. and
grades about No. 4. 1t is said the price
asked for the wheat was about $40 per
bushel. Following is the kind of litera-
ture which Adams has been scattering,
and should deceive no one. A number
Of papers have published the following.
or similar articles. which were founded
on the prepostcrous claims it puts forth.
Abraham Adams. OF Julisetta. Idaho,
claims 10 have discovered variety of
wheat that will enable every individual
farmer to increase his yield per acre
tenfoid.
Mr.. Adams, in 1904. succeeded in get
ting one single head Of wheat, that sat
isiied him of discovery. This one
head of wheat he planted in the fall of
that year and in the following summer
procured seven pounds of the wheat.
This seven pounds he planted in the
spring OF 1906 and secured from the
seven pounds l5i5 pounds. Here was
startling yield at the rate Of 222 bushels
TO the acre. This seed was planted in
the fall for winter wheat. but bad
weather and hail during summer de-
s,royed all the fields of ordinary wheat
SO they were not fit to harvest, Yet the
new wheat left standing threshed out
SO, 600 pounds.
From these statements il is easy to
figure what this wonderful wheat is,
Because Il is impervious TO frost and
also TO light hail. and because it par
tally withstands the heaviest hail, MIR.
Adams named his wheat the Alaska, to
mark its wonderful sturdiness. But the
wonderful things We're yet to come. On
the government station test, il was
found that this wonderful wheat was
hard wheat. II is therefore a wheat
that succeeds equally we'll as winter or
spring wheat, and in both paintings will
grade No. hard.
This means an absolute revolution in
wheat raising. II means that the
countless acres where only soft wheat
is grown. can now raise hard wheat, II
means that in all the vast winter wheat
region, which is greater than the spring
wheat territory, growers can now COM
pete in raising hard wheat. 1t means
that ali average crop for the farmer will
not be twenty bushels to the acre, but
200. II means that the wornout farms
of the east, with such yield. can afford
to have farmers manure their land for
wheat crops because of the enormous
return. 1t means that in time, when
the seed can be distributed everywhere,
the wheat crop of the world will be
multiplied many times. It means that
this year, If Alaska wheat could have
been planted, instead of an estimated
American crop of 500. 00O, 600 bushels,
America would raise for the world close
onto five billion bushels. When this is
realized, the wealth that Alaska has
given in gold, pales into insignificance by
the side Of what the farmers will be
able to lay up in wealth for the country.
Mr.. Adams wheat has been raised on
dry land under slight moisture, showing
that this Alaska wheat is suited to
thrive in drouth. In southern countries
test has shown larger results. Plant
ed in Alabama its leaves have attained
\ width of seven-eighths of an inch. A
head planted In that State showed
! sreater results than that from the or