Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-01
RUSSELL miller
COMPANY Offers
new WHEA1SEED

North Dakota for many years has
enjoyed the reputation of producing
the best bread wheats raised in the
world, and "wheat from North Dako.
ia" has commanded premium prices
over wheat OF like grade from other
districts. Any one, therefore, who
urges a new kind of seed wheat upon
the farmers Of North Dakota assumes
a grave responsibility. No interest
in the state risks more through a mis-
take in this direction than the Rus.
sell-Miller Milling company, whose
flours are advertised the world owe
as Made from the famous North Da.
kota Hard Spring Wheat" and are
conceded to be the perfection of flour
milling The men Of the Russell
Miller Milling company believe that
inferior varieties of wheat have been
more or less widely distributed
through North Dakota during past
years, and that the prestige of the
state has suffered therefrom. The ad.
vent of Marquis wheat has, there
fore, been watched by the company
with much interest, and a large mum.
Der of samples of this wheat have
been tested in the company's labora.
tories. Without exception they have
proved of the very highest milling
quality, and superior wen to. the
best Fife and Blue Stem samples OBJ.
tainable 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 yer the
Canadian border for moro than ten
years past. 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 accord
ing to all 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. Its straw is Of mod.
crate length, stiff, and resistant to
Many growers state also that
it's chaff holds the kernels tightly so
that there is little loss from Smelling.
After most careful investigation the
Russell.Miller Milling company has
secured on very favorable terms.
1OO, 1000 bushels of the finest Marquis
seed wheat direct from Indian Head,
Saskatchewan, where the Canadian
government station developed tha
variety. This seed is being thorough.
ly recleaned to a test weight Of about
IS pounds per bushel, and sacked in
two.bushel eamless sacks, each sack
sealed with the farm tag where grown
The milling company proposes to
distribute this lot of wheat with its
unqualified endorsement, direct to the
farmers at cost, through it's ten mills
and ninety elevators throughout
North Dakota and Montana. The
wheat has plenty of other advocates
among North Dawota's best authori-
ties, especially Professor Bolley of
the agricultural college; the Better
Farming association; the leading seed
houses of the state, and many of our
best farmers.
It would appear that the opportuni.
ty is thus offered the state to rid it.
self of its present seed supply which,
at best, is a mixture Of Fife and
Blue stem, and too, generally con-
tains a percentage of durum, Velvet
Chat, Minnesota 18S, Hump Back,
and other ~discredited varieties, not to
mention the too prevalent foul seeds
and to obtain in exchange on most adj
vantageous terms, a perfectly pure,
recleaned wheat possess
ing all the points of excellence both
for the miller and for the producer
%variously claimed for the other varie-
lies.
Samples of Marquis wheat are being
a tthe local Office of the
company and at all the Occi-
lent elevators in the state, and orders
ire now being booked for the wheat
IN any quantity. RI
BASKET BALL.
At the Armory Friday night, Bis
y, n rclr H;ph School VIC COmnanV A.