East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-07-25

An agricultural writer has prepar- 1
ed the following interesting sketch (
of the new Alaskan wheat which has |
been promulgated at Juliaetta, Idaho:
II some one were to tell the aver |
age wheat farmer that 1t was posi- (
BILE to raise wheat crop on United
States farms in one year, of five bill
lion bushels, he would brand his in
fomant as liar pure and simple, and :
yet had the farmers i'm America plant
ed a wonderful new wheat seed that {
has been perfected by Abraham Ad-
ans, OF Juliaetta, Idaho, that is Just
what the yield would have been this
season, based upon the possible crop
of the year.
| Connected with this assertion is the
greatest wheat story that has ever
been told. far greater than the Wild
est dreams of the wheat king, ip the
security of his vast domain and the
demand for his golden harvest.
The United States paid eighty mill
lions of money for Alaska, and yet
the gold payment Alaska has return
ed sinks into insignificance when
compared with Farmer Adams Alas
ka 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 a large assertion, and hard /
ly beleveable were it not for the
fact that IL is backed up by 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 the originator.
The yield is only a part of the
great discovery, for this Alaska wheat
is both a winter and spring wheat,
and when planted as either is hard
wheat that will grade as No. l. I'M
agine a hard winter wheat for the
great soft wheat belts of the country,
which with this new wheat can COM
pete with the harl wheat lands of
the great Northwest.
A Brief History.
A brief history of this almost mi
raculous seed is given in few words
by its modest originator, 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 response
BILE for.
Mr. Adams first perfect head Of
wheat came to realization In 1914,
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 this planting
From the seven pounds, planted in
the spring of 1906, he harvested
1.545 pounds, an increase Of 122
times. or a basic principle OF 222
bushels to the acre.
Here comes another remarkable
story of this wonderful wheat. The
1545 pounds were sowed in the fall,
and that summer there were terrific
hail storms which put the club and
bluestem wheat so much to the bad
that many fields were never har-
vested, yet from the Alaska wheat
plots there was gathered crop
which threshed out $4,000 pounds.
This when all other wheat was rem
dered practically worthless.
At about this time the Idaho sta
ton became interested in the wheat
and asked to make test. Mr. Ad-
ans carried a sample to the station
~ at Moscow. and after most thor
= ough test received the following re-
90 ply:
Regarding the analysis made upon
the sample of Alaskan wheat which
va YOU brought to this laboratory, ! have
on this to say: The kernels from the
~ fall sown wheat were plump and
M sound. and doubtless will grade as
he No /. Judging from the chemical anc
nd physicical condition of this sample !
a. will say it will probably take rank
IN with the best grade of bluestem fol
ak flour making purposes. The sample
,rs grown from spring grown wheat
Ise showed by chemical analysis a some
sa what higher protein contept( this be-
ma ing an indication of its probable
he strength for bread making purposes)
he I am inclined to think that the wheat
I'D YOU have here is equal If not superior
.ra to our bluestem for flour making pur-
nd noses. I should like to make mil
no fest whenever you can send suffi'
h. cient quantity for that purpose.
n Very truly,
"a j. s. JONES.
State Chemist.
Looks Like Corn.
v.. In appearance the standing whea
A.. is strong and vigorous, with a corn
ia, like growth It's head in the bearini
ak part is about four inches long to owe
- that and an inch to an inch and {