Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-09
HAS NEW KIND OF WHEAT.
Idaho Man Claims to Have Wheat
that Will RevolutiOnize Grain.
(From Minncapolis Dispatch. }


wheat farmer that 1t was possible to
raise q wheat crop on United States
farms in one year Of five billions of
bushels, he would brand his infor-
mant as liar, pure and simple, and
yet had farmers in America planted
wonderful new wheat seed that has
been perfected by Abraham Adams.
OF Juliaetta, Idaho, that Is just what
the yield would have been this sea-
son, based upon the probable crop of
the yeac.
Connected with this assertion is
the greatest wheat story that has ever
Deen told, far greater than the wild
est dreams of the wheat king, in the
security of his vast domain and the
demand for his golden harvest. The
United States paid eight millions OF
money for Alaska, and yet the great
gold payment Alaska has returned
sinks Into insignificance when com
pared with Farmer Adams Alaska
wheat, which in the secret and far
away fields of Idaho, he has gradu-
ally brought to perfection Until he
has given to the world a wheat that
Will grow, under average conditions,
two hundred bushels to the acre.
This is large assertion and hardly
believeable were it not for the fact
that 1T is backed up by the surveys of
land and output of threshers, and the
yield and quality backed up by the
Idaho experimental station at Mos
COW, Idaho, and being followed up by
other stations, all eager to make a
test to see If they can beat the yield
OF N Thn tolI te
part of the great discovery, for this
Alaskan wheat, Is both a winter and
spring wheat, and when planted as
either, is a hard wheat that will
grade as No. l. Imagine a hard win
ter wheat for the great soft wheat
belts OF the country, which with this
new wheat can compete with the hard
wheat lands of the Northwest.
brief history of this almost mi
raculous seed is given in a few words
by its modest originator, d plain man
who farms in plain way, but who
all his life, until old age, has lived
with and for his wheat and has finally
given the world the greatest gift any
one man has ever been responsible
for.
Mr.. Adams first perfect head of
wheat came to realization in 1904
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 1906 he harvested 1,545
pounds, an increase of over 222
times, or a basic principle of 222
bushels to the acre. Here comes ano-
ther remarkable story of this wheat.
The l,545 pounds were sowed in the
fall and that summer there were ter
rifle hail storms which put the club
and blue stem wheat so much to the
bad that many fields were never har-
vested, yet from the Alaska wheat
plots there were gathered a crop,
which threshed out $4,000 pounds.
This when all other wheat was rem
dered practically worthless.
At about this time the Idaho sta
tion became interested in the wheat
and asked to make test. Mr.. Ad-
ans carried a sample to the station
at Moscow. and after a most thorough
test, received the following reply:
Regarding the analysis made upon
the sample of Alaska wheat which
you brought to this territory, have
this to say: The kernels from the fall
sown wheat were plump and sound,
and doubtless will grade as No. /.
Judging from the chemical and physi-
cal condition of this sample | will
say it will probably take rank with
the best grade of blue stem for flour
making purposes. The sample grown
from spring sown wheat showed by
chemical analysis somewhat higher
protein content (this being an indi-
cation of it's probable strength for
purposes.) l am in
clined to think that the wheat you
have here is equal If not the superior
of our Blue Stem for hour-making
purposes. | should like to make
mill test whenever you can send sufR-
cient quantity for that purpose.
Very truly, J. S. Jones,
State Chemist"
In appearance, the standing wheat
is strong and vigorous, with a corn
like growth. It's head in the bearing
part Is about four inches long to
over that, and an inch to an inch and
a half broad ct its broadcst part. The
kernel is about four times the size
or hard wheat, and a clear light
cream color, without a dark spot, as
clean as hulled peanuts, in color. 1t
Is almost absolutely frcst protected
and 1T would be hard frost that
would touch 1t. It's sturGiness makes
1t impervious to Ordinary storm or
light hail. 1t Is originally grown on
high dry unirrigated land, and Will
stand drought as no known wheat
will. Add all these qualities to it's
enormous yielding propensities, and
1t must be admitted that tho world
has been turned topsy turvey so far
as wheat raising Is concerned.
California, where so much soft