Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-05-28
GIANT wheat
RAISED IN IDAHO
Idaho Farmer Reported to Have
Developed a Variety that Yields
Over 200 Bushels per Acre

midget telephone poles and yielding
275 bushels of highly nutricious
kernels to the acre has been discover |
ed in Idaho by Allen Adams, form
er resident of Minneapolis.
Official tests of the new plant |
wonder have been made covering a !
period of four years and the results |
are now made public for the first |
time by Adams son-in-law. o. K.
Hobe, Of the Hobe Lumber company.
who resides at 100 Portland avenue.
Minneapolis. The new wheat has
been named the "Alaska. because
of it's hardness and it's thrift. Mr..
Adams does not care to give out de-
tails of the discovery of his famous
plant which places him along with
Luther Burbank as an originator of
new ideals in plant life. He has the
"goods'' and says they speak for
themselves.
In nutshell he has wheat which
is either spring or winter wheat just
as the farmer desires to SOW, a wheat
so sturdy that storms that ruin other
sturdy stocks affect it's giant stem
but little and the heads of which re-
main erect through ordinary halls.
But the greatest thing of all regard
ing this Wonerful wheat is that it
yields so much greater a ratio of
crop than ordinary wheat as to make
the story almost past belief. a yield
which shows that Mr.. Adams has
been able to secure all increase OF
2221s fold.
With but one head of the giant
wheat in the fall OF 1904. Mr.. Adams
planted the seeds from the head. and
the next year secured seven pounds of
seed. He sowed the seven pounds
of spring wheat in 1906 and from the
seven pounds harvested 1.545 pounds
of seed. an increase of fraction less
than IS fold. A heavy hail storm in
July was the cause Of the ruined
wheat crop in that vicinity. which
left hardly any of the ordinary
wheat standing. From that yield
Mr.. Adams divided his seed. sowing
a part of it last fall and the balance
of it 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.
1t is stated that ordinarily the
farmer sows a bushel and peck of
seed to the acre. Out of that a big
yield would be IS bushels to the acre
under exceptional circumstances. or
an increase of A fold. The Adams
wheat has shown as high as 222 and
traction. Garry this out on the
same plan and it would mean 277
bushels to the acre or 6.23 times
bumper crop. To show what the
: 'Alaska" wheat may 90 for farmers
of the world multiply the probable
wheat yield of this summer by six
times. or nearly six and quarter
times and that is sample of what
might happen had all the farmers
used this wonderful new wheat. 1t
would mean an addition to the
wealth of America alone by millions
of money and would raise the value
of wheat lands everywhere. making
wheat the best paying crop i'll the
world. r
Photographs have been made o1
the new wheat kernel. comparing it
in size with the ordinary wheat. A
shown side by side. the ALASKA" !!
more than double the size the heac
of the largest "blue stem.'
May 4 the Idaho college OF agricul
ture made a laboratory test OF tn
wheat and reported the grains plumI
and sound and that it should MAKE
l,etter bread than "blue STEM I
The wheat also showed much high
eli protein content, making 1t mor'
valuable for food. The chemist. J
s. Jones. asked for a sample for mill
INC test as soon as possible. but Mr.
ADAMS is careful of his seed ant
has only one pound Of it out, ant
that with written contract witt
the Oregon experimental station
That IL will sell no seed. For thi
wheat MI. Adams received $500
hnshel He sold one pound for s5 t
the state. He has an offer from !
New York seed firm to handle tn
seed. paying him 60 per cent Of tn
net receipts. He insisted upon ask
ing what it was selling for, and wa