Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-27
PLAN IS EXPERIMENT
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Some Of the biggest papers in the United
States have, for several months, been pub
fishing columns OF accounts of a wonderful
new wheat which a man by the name of
Adams found growing In a sheltered cove
up in Alaska. He brought home one head
Of the wheat, so the story goes, and planted
it. What was the result? Seven pounds of
wheat from that one head? )
From the picture that head of wheat
must nave looked like one of the seed
plumes which we see on sumac bushes. In
telling about this wheat one big paper said
that from the seven pounds were harvested
945 p~ounds-"more than 25 bushels to the
acre was the ratio of yield"
Claims Not Fulfilled.
When you consider that the worlds
average yield is twelve and seven-tenths
bushels to the acre, this Alaska wheat
looked like something bigger than the big
gest gold mine ever found in the world.
The article In question showed that had
all America had Alaska wheat to seed this
year the American crop alone would have
been 5000. OOO,0 900 bushels"
The same paper. which published that
llC III us lSpdC VI AVbuSt Il DTlnltu all
editorial in its issue of September ~ which
contained a telegraphic report from a man
sent out 70 sift the. claims of this wonder
full wheat right on the ground. Among
other things this telegram contained these
sentences:
Assertions huge crops OF flour making
quality not Justified. Adams only claim
of proportion of 200 bushels an acre is will
an eighth Of an acre patch two years ago.
So far this year only twenty-five to thirty
five an acre. Flour making qualities un.
known. The wheat in appearance is Xix
certain large, coarse wheats, not valuable
for flour"
Now, what would you have thought OF
a farmer who would have jumped In after
reading that first article, thrown aside al
Of his STANDARD blue stem or club or Other
tested and tried wheat and sowcd his
whole acreage to this ~new-fangled Alaska
stuff?
Common Sense Demand Test.
In plain words you would a said:
"A man who would do that has MOI
sense enough to be called a farmer. A
he has to do is Just walt a little and. LEI
the experiment station try it out first. Il
It is a good thing they will find Il out 70,
a certainty and II It is not then no harm
will be done to the country as a whole o,
to the private fortunes of the wheat grow
ers. That is what experiment stations arr
for-to try It out first and save the peopl,
from making big mistakes"
lust so with this matter OF guaranteeins
bank deposits. There is an experiment sta
ton out west that we call Oklehoma-ant
It's a mighty good one. too. A few month
ago the people of Oklahoma enacted a Law
compelling the state banks to chip in an
make up a sort OF insurance fund will
which to guarantee the deposits in all tn,
state banks.
That experiment has only lust begun
I'm 10 date they saw II works fine, Blu
right now they are lust about at the plsc
where this man Adams was when h
PLANTED his first head OF wheat iron
Alaska and raised seven pounds OF seed
I figure that guaranteed banking IN Okla
homa Is not a bit further on In the test
ing process than the Alaska wheat wa
when Adams had thrsshed out his seve'
mounds OF seed and figured that the ratl
Of WELD was 25 bushels to the acre,
Don't Jump at Conclusions.
II looks to me as II it would be Just a
foolhardy for a man to vote for Mr.. Bryan
guaranty plans as It would be for all tn
wheat farmers in the United states RICH
now 10 put their entire acreage into Alask
wheat before It has been tested and foun
in the first place. whether big acreage of
will yield any better than our standar
brands now being generally planted, and
secondly, whether It will stand the test @
actual milling and make flour that wi
make good bread and be commercially saI
able to the flour consumers OF the Who'll
country.
The guaranty plan now In operation dow
in Oklahoma, has not reached even the bi
acreage test of yield. and 1t is a long wa
off from having come to the milling ties
II after It has been tested to a finish
turns out TO be a good thing, then 20
may be sure that It will prevail; that tn
people Of the Whole country will want
and will get it.
On the other hand, there will be plent
OF time TO put it into operation under
national law after the experiment static
has made at least one complete test of IT,
and that test will not be finished until
has been demonstrated by the bankers
Oklahoma. operating under the law Their
that they can. for one thing. handle III
deposits which they get at a profit an
make loans OF the proper proportions
their deposits at the reasonable percentas
Of interest: and for another thing. that the
can stand the test OF downright hard time
and a genuine old-fashioned panic, when
whole lot Of people are pounding at II
doors of a lot Of banks, all trying to dra
out their money at the same time.
That is the only thing that will tell n
story. A leaky roof does not make an