Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-11-19
GREAT WHEAT
DISCOVERY
Scientist Shows How Farmer
Can Be Freed From The
Bad Weather Trials.

A special from London says: II
science doesn't let its foot slip the time
may be near at hand when the world
will not have to worry over the winter
wheat CROP" The happy farmer may
be almost able to grow the cereal while
you wait. Mt the same time being as
sured some independence of weather con-
ditions and certain and abundant har-
vests at a reduced cost. All this is prom
ised by new scientific process which
has had trial on farm at Creeksea
Hall, Burnham on CROUCH. II at least
produced the most rapidly grown wheat
crop ever known in England.
The seed planted in the two acres Of
land which was utilized for the expert
ment had been previously treated in ac-
cordance with secret process evolved
by J. j. Melville. scientist, who for
three years has studied the subject of
the vitality of seeds. Sown on July 10
last, the crop on this two-acre section
had caught up with the wheat planted
in the spring and was in full head liz
weeks after the planting.
The seed was planted in the ordinary
way" explained X. j. Suter, whose farm
has shared in the glory of this result,
"both as regards soil and cultivation.
Only five days after the sowing the
wheat appeared-the usual time is three
weeks and on the thirteenth day it was
in such a forward condition that the
ground had to be rolled. The first ears
of grain were just eight weeks and three
days after planting. This new process,
I am convinced, means that it will not
be necessary to sow wheat in the winter
at all. II means, too. that farmer will
be able to wait right up to June, if he
desires, before he puts his wheat crop
into the ground. He will have ample
time to clear his land and practically Sc
lect his weather"
II think it would be possible to get
two crops q year of land" said Mr..
Melville in explaining the possibilities Of
the new process, zone sown in March
and the other in June. Certainly that
would be feasible if one crop be the
cereal and the other lucern. The treated
wheat has been tried in Saxony, where
planting was not done until July 22d last,
and the results have been the same.
1.-THE process of treating the seeds
takes three weeks, and it affects the
germ of the wheat or other seed. trebling
the life force naturally contained in it.
The force this treatment introduces re-
duces the seed TO a more negative-elec-
trically speaking state than the normal.
/ regard the ordinary seed as being in
an unduly positive condition. To alter
that nature has to take time. and time
is money and risk to the farmer and the
world. But that is only part of the pro-
cess, and the rest must remain secret
for the time.
"a do not think l am unduly sanguine
when say that think in the future
wheat will grow in manner which can
be best described as on bushes, each
bush being produced from one seed. !
made test with barley. taking one
grain. From that one grain got 1900
grains on 81 stems. The second year
they yielded bushel. In this way grain
sown in the spring will be up in time to
be ripened by the summers sun. and
the farmer will not have TO wait for the
autumn. with its doubtful weather. for
harvesting. ANY seeds can be treated
by the process and obtain similar superb
ority."
Five witnesses testify to the brief
period of growth required of the wheat
upon the Suter farm.