Evening journal., 1908-07-23
222 BUSHELS FROM
AN ACRE IN WHEAT
Idaho Farmer Declares His
New Seed Will Yield This
Enormous Crop
UNITED STATES
MAKES INVESTIGATION

If some one were to tell the average
farmer that it is possible to raise a
wheat crop of FIVE billion bushels on
United States farms in one year he
would be told that ne was mistaken,
yet had the farmers in America planted
new wheat seed that has been per-
fected by Abraham Adams of Juliaetta.
Idaho, that is just what The yield would
have been this season. based upon the
probable crop Of the year.
Connected with this assertion is the
greatest wheat story that has ever been
told. far greater than the widest
dreams Of the wheat king, in the Sc
curity Of his vast domain and the de-
mand for his golden harvest. The
United States paid eighty millions of
money for Alaska, and yet the great
gold payment Alaska has returned.
sinks into insignifcance when COM
pared with Farmer Adams Alaska
wheat. which in the secret aud far
away fields of idaho. he has gradually
brought to perfection until he has
given to the world, wheat that Will
grow under average conditions, two
hundred bushels to the acre
Mr.. Adams first perfect head Of
wheat came to realization in 1905 from
an experimental plant Of the spring of
that year. This one head he planted
that fall. as winter wheat, and the mex.
year he secured seven pounds Of seed
pounds planted in the spring Of 1906.
he harvested 1545 pounds, an increase
of over 222 times. or basic principle
of 222 bushels to the acre.
As a test. Mr. Adams has sent sirgie
heads of wheat 10 parts Of the country
where he had men that he could trust
to plant and ascertain the result. Pc
ports are Just coming to him, and he
finGe that in other States his Alaska
Wheat does better than on its homo
soil. In Alabama. head planted on
December 81. was waist high on April
1. with leaves rs Of an inch broad, ard
on July was harvested
One Oregon experimental station Of
fered the originator 50 for a pound Of
his wheat. a rate of over $500 bushel
The old gentleman did not prize the
money. He only wanted to be sure
that some attache was not striving to
get away some of his seed He re-
duired a contract that the State would
not dispose of any wheat used in the
test, and upon securing that, sent the
seed asked for. Now the United States
experimen.ors are becoming interested,
and next years report will have much
to say about Abraham Adams and his
wheat and the old gentleman will n.
one step come as much into prominence
as Luther Burbank. who. although ac-
complishing hundreds of miracles with
growing things. has beer eclipsed by
this man who has done what the aver
age farmer viii believe is an impos-
sibility.
In appearance, the standing wheat Is
strong and vigorous. with a corn-lilSe
growth. It's head in the bearing par.
is about four inches lcrg, and an inch
TO an inch and a half broad at its
broadest part. The kernel is about
four times the size of hard wheat. and
clear light cream color without a
dark spot. It would be only hard
frost that would touch &. It's sturdi-
ness makes it impervious to ordinary
storm or light hail. II is originally
grown on high, dry unlrrigated land.
and viii stand drought as no known
wheat will.