Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-07-24
A DREAM in WHEAT
AN IDAHO FARMER CLAIMS TO
HAVE PROPoGATED GRAIN
THAT WILL GO NEARLY 800
BUSHELS PER ACRE IN ALL
KINDS OF WEATHER.

o. K. Hobe of the Hobe Lumber
company of Minneapolis, gives out
the story that he and his father-in-
law, A. Adams, an Idaho farmer,
have been keeping profound sec
ret since 1904 They now claim to
have produced the most wonderful
wheat the earth ever yielded.
Mr.. Adams will not give out the
details of the discovery of his fa-
nous plant, which places him with
Luther Burbank as an originator of
new ideals in plant life. He has
'sthe goods" and he says they speak
for themselves. In nutshell, he has
a wheat which is either spring or
winter wheat, just as farmer de-
sires to sow, wheat that storms
which ruin sturdy stock affect its
giant stems but little, and the heads
of which remain erect through ordi-
nary halls.
But the greatest thing in all re-
garding this wonderful wheat is that
it yields SO much greater a ratio of
crops than ordinary wheat as to
make the story almost past belief,
a yield that shows that Mr. Adams
! on his Idaho farm, has been able to
!, secure an increase of 222 1-2 fold.
! According to the story given out
! by Mr.. Hobe, taken from records in
his possession, Mr.. Adams had but
one head of the giant Alaska wheat,
as it is called, in the fall of 1904.
He sowed the seed from that head
and in the fall of the next year Sc
cured seven pounds Of seed. He SOW
ed that seYen pounds as spring wheat
in 1906, and from the seven pounds
harvested 1,545 pounds in the fall. In
the fall Of the same year he sowed
it as winter wheat, but conditions
were adverse to wheat crop. The
winter was bad one, nearly all the
bluestem nd club wheat was Destroy
ed and only a third of the expert
mental wheat came to maturity, yet
when harvested there was yield of
$4,000 pounds from the 1,545 pounds
Of seed, an increase of fraction
less than thirty-five-fold. A heavy
/ hailstorm in July was the cause of
4 the ruined wheat crops in that vicin-
| ity, which left hardly any of the or
/ dinary wheat standing.
4 Following the yield, Mr.. Adams di-
vided his seed, sowing part of it
last fall and the balance this spring.
He now has nearly 900 acres in seed
of the new wheat and has saved some
seed to guard against possible total
loss this year.
The farmer will understand with
out explanation what this new seed
means to the world. The average
man can hardly realize. Mr.. Hobe
explains with great enthusiasm that
s it is the most wonderful stride in
wheat culture since that was used to
Y make the staff of life.
Ordinarily, he says, the farmer
sows bushel and peck of wheat
to the acre in Dakota. Out of thai
Il a big yield would be fifty-five bushels
to the acre. under exceptional cir
cumstances, or an increase of forty.
A four-fo1d. The Adams wheat has
has shown as high as 900 fold Car.
ry this out on the same plan, and II
would mean 217 bushels to the acre
or 6.23 times a bumper crop.
Toshow what the Alaska wheat
may do for the farmers of the world
multiply the probable wheat yield O.
this summer by six times, or nearly
six and quarter times, and there i.
sample Of what might happen If al
the farmers used this wonderful new
wheat. 1t would mean an addition tt
the wealth of America alone, by mil
lions of money, and would raise th,
value of wheat lands everywhere
making wheat the best paying crol
in the world.
photographs of the Alaska whea
compared with others show Its grea
!, size. The most striking example /
the head of the "bull stem z th,
. wheat generally raised in Idaho
growing side by side with the ney
Alaska, when about half headed
Both were planted at the same time
1t shows how muc earlier and large
the newwheatis. The pictures Of th