The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1908-08-26
is WHEAT
A FAKE?
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With this last idea in mind the
experimenting farmer carried small
quantity of his wheat to the Idaho ex-
pertinent station at Moscow. He
knew he had wheat that yielded past
any belief. He had something mar
velous in wheat that yielded equally
as well planted winter or spring Did
he have a good wheat The chem
lists and experts at the station tested it
and pronounced it a good quality of
hard wheat Hard wheat That
was sufficient. But Adams knew he
must have patience for another year.
In the fall of 1906 the 1545
pounds were planted in fields by the
side of the famous Blue Stem and
Club wheat grown in that section.
Watching their comparative growth,
Mr.. Adams picked on the same day
green heads of Club wheat and green
heads of his Alaska wheat, the latter
SO many times larger than the ordin-
airy wheat that the Club wheat seemed
hardly started. The farmer was jubi-
liant. Then nature took hand, and
hailstorms of the worst kind came,
beating down the ordinary wheat until
it was not fit to harvest. The farm
er, discouraged, went out to bis Alas
ka wheat fields and saw that the sturdy
stems had partly withstood the storms,
and he finally harvested $4,000
pounds of seed.
Now was the time to make his
final test. He had enough for a test
from winter-grown. Taking this to
the experimental station, he soon re-
ceived report which made him for
the first time sure that he had some
thing worth giving to the public. The
station chemist wrote:
The kernels from the fall-sown
wheat were plump and sound and
doubtless will grade No. 1. Judging
from the chemical and physical con-
dtion of this sample, it will probably
take rank with the best grade of Blue
Stem for flour.
The sample grown from spring.
sown wheat showed by chemical anal
ysis somewhat higher protein con-
tent (this being an indication of its
probable strength for bread-making
purposes). | am inclined to think
that the wheat that you have here is
the equal, if not the superior, of our
Blue Stem for hour-making purposes.
/ should like to make a mill test
whenever you can send me sufficient
quantity for that purpose.
AS last test, Mr.. Adams sent
single heads of wheat to other parts of
the country where he had men he
could trust to plant and ascertain the
result. Reports are just coming to
him, and he finds that in other states
his Alaska wheat does better than on
its home soil. In Alabama a head
was planted December 81, was up
January 30, waist high April /, with
leaves seyen-eighths of an inch broad,
and July was harvested. 1t showed
to be hard wheat of fine quality,
and the one head yielded the same as
the first head planted in Idaho. =
Wheat Expert Gives His Views.
Professor E. E. Elliott, head of the
department of agriculture in Washing.
ton State college, and who is recog-
nized as one of the best authorities II
the United States on wheats, recent,
visited the farm near Juliaetta where
Alaska wheat is grown and thorough.
ly investigated the merits of the grain
The results of his investigations are
interesting and he denounceS as falst
the extravagant claims made for tn,
wheat. Professor Elliott says.
Fields of Alaska wheat examined
will not run more than IS bushels Il
the acre. The highest recorded
yuorld'c Weld 10 100 h,,ebaIe e. -,