The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-24
'MILLERS BACK
MARQUIS WHEAT
EXTRA YIELD, EARLY MATURITY,
FiRMNESS AND UNIFORMITY OF
KERNEL AND ADAPTABlLITY
FOR SUPERIOR BREAD MAKING
QUALITIES ADVANCED.

Grand Forks Herald: North Dakota
for many years has enjoyed the repu-
tation of producing the best bread
wheats raised in the world. and
wheat from North Dakota" has COM
manded premium prices over wheat OF
like grade from other districts. Amy
one, therefore. who urges a new kind
of seed wheat upon the farmers OF
North Dakota, u a grave re-
sponsibility. No interest in the state
risks more through a mistake in this
direction than the Russell-Milling Co.,
whose f1ours are advertised the world
over as "made from the famous North
Dakota hard spring wheat, and are
conceded to be the perfection Of -four
milling.
The men Of the Russell Miller Mil
ling co. believe that inferior varIe-
ties of wheat have been more or less
widely distributed through North d.
kota during the past years, and that
the prestige Of the state has suffered
therefrom. The advent Of Marquis
wheat has, therefore, been watched by
the company with much interest, and
a large number of samples of this
wheat has been tested in the compa-
ny's laboratories. Without exception
they have proved of the very highest
milling quality, and superior even to
the best Fife and Bluestem samples
o%btainable from the same localities.
The extra yield and quality Of flour,
however, are only Incidental to the
other traits of Marquis wheat which
must appeal to the producer. Marquis
wheat has been grown just over the
Canadian border for more than ten
years. 1t has been developed from
a single plant which is said to have
been a cross between Red Fife and an
early Calcutta wheat. At any rate,
the seed is very similar to the finest
Scotch Fife wheat, and, according to
the experience of a large number of
growers, gives an extra high yield per
acre, and ripens from a. week to ten
days earlier than Fife or even Blue
stem. It's straw is of moderate length,
stiff, and resistant to rust. Many
growers state also that its chaff holds
the kernels tightly so that there is
little loss from Smelling.
After most careful investigation, the
Russell Miller Milling Co. has secured
on very favorable terms, 100000 bush
els Of the finest Marquis SEED wheat
direct from Indian Head, Saskatche-
wan. where the Canadian government
station developed the variety. This
seed is being thoroughly recleaned to
a test weight Of about sixty-five
pOuuN6 per DuplISl, alO SdChSu Ill LWO~
bushel seamless sacks, each sack seal
ed with the farm tag where grown.
The milling company proposes to dis
tribute this lot of wheat with its I'M
qualified endorsement, direct to the
farmers at cost. The wheat has plen-
ty of other advocates among North
Dakota's best authorities, especially
Professor Bolley of the agricultural
college,; the Better Farming associa-
ton; the leading seed houses Of the
state, and many Of our best farmers.
1t would appear that the op%portunt-
ty is thus offered the state to rid itself
of it's present seed supply which, at
best, is a mixture Of Fife and Blue
stem, and too generally contains a
percentage of duTum, Velvet Chaff,
Minnesota 1873, Hump Back, and other
d~iscredited varieties-not to mention
the too prevalent foul seeds-and to
obtain in exchange on most advan-
tageous terms, a perfectly pure. thor
oughly r~ecleaned wheat possessing all
the points of excellence both for the
miller and for the producer variously
claimed for the other varieties.
Samples Of Marquis wheat are be-
ing exhibited at the local Office Of the
milling company and at all the Occf-
dental elevators in the state, and or
ders r now being booked for the
wheat in any quantity.