Arizona republican., 1908-08-01
GREATEST WHEAT Sl0RY THAT'S EVER BEEN TOLD
The Development of an Alaskan Var iety by an Idaho Farmer.

If some one were to tell the aver age wheat farmer that it was pos sible to raise a wheat crop on Un- ited States farms in one year, of five billions of bushels, he would brand his informant as a liar pure and simple, and yet had the farmers in America planted a wonderful new wheat seed that has been perfected by Abraham Adams of Juliaetta. Ida ho, that is just what the yield would have been this season, based upon the probable crop of the year.
 Connected with this assertion is the greatest wheat story that has ever been told, far greater than tGc widest dreams of the wheat king, in the security of his vast domain and the demand for his golden harvest. The United States raid eighty mil lions of m0Eey for Alaska, and yet the greas gold aay,-ent Alaska h.,r returned sinks into insignificance when compared with Farmer Adams Alaska wheat, which in the secret and far away fields of Idaho he has gradually brought to perfection urti he has given to the world wheat that will grow under average con- dition TWO hundred bushels to the acre
 This IS large assertion and nard- ly bclieVatle were it not for the fact taat :t is backed up by sur vcys of land and output of Chresh- CTS. and tie Yield and quality back ed up by the Idaho experimental Sta tion at Moscow. Idaho. and being followed Sup .hy cher statioi:s all cage tu n.ake test to see i' fhey Cah beat the yield of the originator. The yield is CnIy a part of the great discovery. for this Alaska wheat is both a winter and spring wheat, and when planted as either is a hard wheat that will grade as NJ. 1. Imagine hard winter wheat for the grea. soft wheat belts of the coun try, which with this new wheat can compete with the hard wheat lands of the great northwest.
 A brief history of this almost mir aculous seed is given in a few words by it's modest originator, a plain man who farms in a plain way, but who all his\ life, until old age has lived with and for his wheat, and has fin ally given the world the greatest gift any one man has ever been re- SpOnsible for.
 Mir. Adams first perfect head of wheat came to realization in 1904 from an experimental plant of the spring of that year. This one head he planted that fall as winter wheat, and the next year he secured seven pounds of seed from that planting. From the seven pounds planted in the spring of 1908 he harvested 1545 pounds, an increase sof over 222 times, or a basis principle of 222 bushels to the acre. Here comes another remarkable story of this wonderful wheat. The 1545 pounds were sOwed in the fail and that sum- mer there were terrific hail storms which put the club and blue stem wheat so much to the bad that many fields were never harvested, yet from the Alaska wheat plots there were gathered a crop which threshed out 53,00O pounds. This when all other wheat was rendered practically worthless.
 At about this time the Idaho sta tion became interested in the wheat and asked to make a test. Mir. Adams carried sample to the sta tion at Moscow, and after a most thorough test received the following reply:
 > "Regafding the analysis made upon the sample of Alaska wheat which you brought to this laboratory, I have this to say: The kernels from the fall sown wheat were