The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-09-10
Wonderful ifTrue.

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marked from Oscar f. G.. Day,
Special Correspondent, Minneapolis,
MINI. We know nothing Of him or
Abraham Adams, who has made this
alleged success with wheat, but IL
one-half is true IL is OF such vast
benefit TO the farmer that we publish
It so each one Gao investigate for
himself IL he chooses;
Everyone who knows anything
about farming or gardening, even in
the remotest degree, and many 9TH
ers besides, know about Luther Bur-
bank, the wonderful manipulation of
natures products, and the great
things he has done to create new
varieties in fruits and flowers, yet
when II comes TO actual xalue to the
country and world at large, the
most wonderful things ever accom-
plished has been by Abraham
Adams, Of Juliaetta, Idaho, who has
performed almost a miracle with
wheat, and made il possible to in
crease the wheat crop of every indi-
vidual who raises that cereal ten
fold.
While II has not been generally
known, many governments, though
scientific men, have been striving
for many years to avert world fam
inc. "How soon will the world
starve to death1" asks Sir William
Crookes, who shows by statistics
that the average yield per acre of
wheat fol- the world is only 1877
bushels. Yet after years of skillful
trial the government stations have
been able to perfect wheat bearing
only triAe, and they are now
aghast at the result of experiments
by this Idaho farmer, who has been
able by mathematical figuring on
individual stands of wheat as perfect
ed by him. TO show an increase of
27S fold.
II will be hard for old wheat rails.
ers to believe this wonderful story,
but proof has been made by surveys
of the land on which wheat was
planted, and accurate afhdavits Of
wheat threshed. Here is what is
coming to the wheat business, most
marvellous thing but actually true.
Mr.. Adams, in 1904, succeeded
in getting one single head of wheat,
that satisfied him OF a 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 he secured from the seven
pounds l.S4S pounds. Here was a
startling yield at the ratio Of 222
bushels to the acre. This seed was
planted in the fall fer winter wheat,
but bad weather and hail during
summer destroyed all the fields of
ordinary wheat so they we're not fit
to harvest. Yet the new wheat left
standing threshed out $4,000
pounds.
From these statements il is easy
to figure what this wonderful wheat
is. Because it is impervious to frost
and also to light hail, and because it
partially withstands the heaviest
hail, Mr.. Adams named his wheat
the Alaska, to marx its wonderful
studiness. But the wonderful things
we're yet to come. On a govern
ment station test, it was found that
this wonderful wheat was hard
wheat. 1t is therefore, wheat that
succeeds equally well as winter or
spring wheat, and in both paintings
will grade No. hard.
This means an absolute revolution
in wheat raising. 1t means that the
countless acres Of California. where
only soft wheat is grown, can now
raise hard wheat. 1t means that in
all the vast winter wheat region,
which is greater than the spring
wheat territory, growers can now
compete with the northern counties
in growing hard wheat. 1t means
that an average crop for the farmer
will not be twenty bushels to the
acre. but two hundred. 1t means
that the worn out farms of the east,
with such a yield. can afford to have
farmers manure their land for wheat
crops because of the enormous re-
turn. 1t means that in time, when
the seed can be distributed every
where. the wheat crop of the world
will be multiplied many times. II