New-York tribune., 1911-09-25
TELLS WHEAT'S MIRACLE
Expert of Agriculture Depart
ment Says It Is in the Price.
IS NOT WORTH ST A POUND
Declares Product of Pastor Rus
sell Is Little Better than the
Usual Virginia Variety"

The Department Of Agriculture at
Washington has come to the conclusion
that the wheat now being sold by Pastor
Charles T. Russell at his Brooklyn Iao-
ernacle is really miracle wheat Inc
miracle consists in his being able to sell
il for 81 pound.
What the department thinks was re-
vealed yesterday by a Brooklyn man VINO
recently bought some OF the wheat ana
wrote to Washington about it. He re-
ceived a reply from NJ. A. Carleton. cereal
ist Of the Bureau Of Plant Industry De-
partment Of Agriculture. which said:
AS 10 its merits, l will say that il is
very good wheat. and probably httle
letter than the varieties usuallT SIOmtt
i'm Virginia. where IL originated. 1t Is not
OF suficient value, however, TO JUSTIFY
anything like the price that has Deeh
charged for It,
Pastor Russell was right the other day
when he declared that the time Of increase
vss at hand lie made slight mistake
though. in laying the whole responsibility
for the increase at the door of higher
power. when in reality il was due In the
main TO no greater a being than himself.
His wheat. according 10 the pastors own
story. is the same as that raised by K H..
Storner. of Fincastle Va. Mr. Storners
wheat sells for s. a bushel The pastor 5
increase was 10 $50 a bushel
But miracle wheat" is not the only orahu
that has been put forth TO convert the world
20 vegetarian diet There was another
about three years ago which went by the
name Of Alaska" and sold for $50 bush
81. The Department of Agriculture eX-
1ns
merited the extravagant claims made for
t. and its sale was suppressed.
Philip Sidersky. Of No. 800 North Eden
street. Baltimore has been worried for
some time about the manner In which the
Brooklyn pastors enthusiastic estimate OF
his wheat has gone through the mails un-
challenged in the pastors magazine Tine
Watch Tower" He thought something
ought to be done about st. and so informed
the Postoffice Department.
The reply was discouraging. II ADVISED
Mr. Sidersky that the postal authorizes
were not concerned I'm the price charged by
the publisher for articles advertised In MS
maEazine.-and also that, since the puolcd-
ton did not appear to carry any amount OF
advertising of the publishers other puSl-
ness. il would not appear 10 come Witmh
the prohibition Of the statute relative 10
publications designed primarily for adver-
tising purposes
But Mr. Sidersky hasn't given up. lie
holds that Pastor Russels wheat isn't
anywhere near sixty times as good as the
kind sold on the New York Produce EN-
change and that he is going 10 put stop
10 it's selling for sixty times as much, If
he has to 20 TO law about II.
There was more than one person In TINS
CITY Yesterday who felt somewhat as Mr.
Sidarskv did on the subject. The profits
CLEANED from miracle wheat they point
ed out. went into the treasury of the Natcn
Tower Bible and Tract Society an orgam-
cation partial 10 Pastor Russells milennlal
dawn movement. These good people do not
object to the arrival Of the millennium, so
long as il comes I'm it's own good time. but
they are a hit doubtful Of the wisdom or
Fastening It. especially by selling wheat at
twenty times its market. or more.