Arizona republican., 1908-08-01

plum and sound and doubtless will grade as No. l. Judging from the | chemical and physical condition of this sainple, I will say it will prob I ably take rank with the best grade of Blue Stem for flour making pur- poses. The sample grown from spring sown wheat showed by chemical analysis a somewhat higher protein content (this being an indication of it's probable strength for bread mak- ing purposes). l am inclined to think that the wheat you have here is equal if not the superior of our Blue stem for flour making purposes. should like to make a mill test whenever you can send sufficient quantity for that purpose.
 Very truly,
 J. S. JONES, State Chemist" In appearance the standing wheat is strong and vigorous with a corn like growth. It's head in the bearing part is about four inches long to over that, and an inch to an inch and a half broad at it's broadest part. The kernel is about four times the size of hard wheat, and a clear light cream color without a dark spot, as clean as hulled peanuts in color. It is almost absolutely frost protected and it would be a hard frost that would touch it. Its sturdi- ness makes it impervious to ordinary storm or light hail. It is originally grown on high dry unirrigated land, and will stand drought as no known wheat will. Add all these qualities to it's enormous yielding propensities and it must be admitted that the world has been turned topsy turvey so far as wheat raising is, concerned.
 California, where so much soft wheat is grown, is beginning to take up the Alaska wheat, for they see the opportunity of a hard wheat. yield. Farmers in Missouri and the east, and in the south, where soft wheat is all that can be raised with success, are beginning to think of what is in store for them when some neighbor convinces them by making a first trial that the wonderful Alaska wheat story is not as much a fabrication as the first story of seedless oranges wa sthought to be- The wheat world is trembling on the verge of new era, une Tn which the man with a hundred acres, suddenly finds his farm increased in area to a thousand acres by the discovery of one old farmer away out in Idaho
 As last test, Mir. Adams has sent single heads of wheat to other parts of the country where he had men he could trust to plant and ascertain the rsult. Reports are just coming to him, and he finds that in other states his Alaska wheat does better than on it's home soil. In Alabama a head was planted December 21, was up January 30, waist high April l, with leaves sevcn-eigths of an inch broad, and July was harvested It showed to be hard wheat of a fine quality, and the one head yielded the s:me as the first head planted in Idaho.
 One Oregon experimental station offered the originator $5 for pound of his wheat-a rate of over $500 a bushel. The old gentleman did not prize the money. He only wanted to be sure that some attachc was not striving to get away some of his seed. He required a contract that the state would not dispose of any wheat used in the test, and upon securing that sent the seed asked for along. Now the United States eX- perimentors are becoming interested and next years report will have much to say about Abraham Adams and his wheat and the old gentleman will at one step come as much into
 
 accomplishing hundreds of miracles with growing things, has been eclipsed by this man who has done what the average farmer will believe is an impossibility.