The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-08-14
Wizard Evolves New Wheat Plant.
Grows Variety That Will Yield 200 Blu.
Per Acre on Any Land.
Idaho Farmer Wins Out.
Raises Grain That Grades as Hard Wne Suited to Warm or Cold
Climates

Every who knows anything about farming gar
dening the remotest degree and many others be-
sides know about Luther Burbank the wonderful manpu
ator of natures products and the great things he has
done to create varieties in fruits and flowers; yet
when it to actual value to the country and world at
large the most wonderful thing accomplished has
been done bv Abraham Adams of Juiaetta Idaho. who
has performed almost miracle with wheat and made it
possible to increase the wheat crop of every individual
who raises that cereal ten-fOd.
While it has not been generally known many govern
ments through their scientific have been striving for
many years to avert world famine How soon will the
world starve to death?" asks sir William Crooks who
shows by statistics that the average yield per of
wheat for the world is only 1871 busnels. Yet, after
years of skilfu trial. and they aghast at the
suit of the experiments by this Idaho farmer who has
been able by mathematical figuring individual stands
of wheat perfected by him to show and increase of 28
fold.
HARD TALE To BELIEVE.
1t will be hard for old wheat rasers to believe this
derfu story, but proof has been made by surveys of the
land on which wheat was planted and accurate afdavits
of wheat hreshed Here is what is coming to the wheat
business a marvellous thing, but actually true
Mr. Adams in 1904 succeeded in getting single head
of wheat that satisfied him of discovery The head
of wheat he planted IN the fall of that year. and in the
following summer procured seven pounds of the wheat
This psns planted in the spring o 1886 and he
secured from the pounds 1545 pounds Here was
a startling yield at the ratio of 222 bushels to the acre.
This seed was planted in the fall for winter wheat but
bad weather and hail during summer destroyed all the
fields Of ordinary wheat they not fit for harvest
Yet the wheat left standing thrashed out 90 600
pounds.
From the statements 1t IS easy TO 1gure what this Won
derul wheat is. Because it mpervious to frost and al
to light hail, and because it partially wthstands the
heaviest hail Mr. Adams named his wheat the Alaska
marks its wonderful sturdness But the wonderful things
yet to come. On government test it found
that this wonderful wheat was hard wheat 1t is
therefore, wheat that succeeds equally well winter
spring wheat and in both paintings will grade No. hard
MEANS WHEAT REVOLUTION.
This absolute revolution in wheat raising 1t
that the countless of California, where only
soft wheat is grown, now raise wheat. 1t means
that all the vast winter wheat region which greater
than the spring wheat territory growers COM
pete with the Northern countries IN growing hard wheat
1t that average crop farmer will not be twenty
bushes to the acre. but two hundred 1t that the
out farms of the east with such yield afford
to have farmers their land for wheat crops because
of the enormous return 1t that in time when the
seed be distributed everywhere the wheat crop of the
world will be multiplied many times 1t means that this
year if Alaska wheat could have been planted instead
estimated American crop of 100000 900 bushels Amer
lea would raise for the world close to 900 900 b
Shells When this is realized the wealth tnat Alaska has
given in gold paeS into nsigncance by the side of what
the farmers will be able to lay up in wealth for the
try.
Mr. Adams wheat has been raised on dry land under
slight moisture showing that this Alaska wheat is suited
to thrive in drought In southern countries test has
shown large results. Planted in Alabama it leaves have
attained width of seventh-eighhs of an inch head
planted in that state showed greater results than that
from the Original head in Idaho.