The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-21
By Erederis .. Haskin.

decades. lie presence or the sDurunl9
wheat -four has caused mnnufactur-
CTS TO take up the making of macal
roni and spaghetti. which were for
naerly imported So it has come to-
pass that 100, 600 zoo pounds or these
products are each year manufactured
In the United states from this hard
wheat. . s X Fl
Durum Leads.
The figures are now available for
period Of eight years that show the
relative production OF Durum and
other 81 andard varieties at certain'
points There are. for instance. Edg
aeley. North Dakota and IIighmore,
South Dakota. centers of regions toll
which this wheat is peculiarly adapt
ed. Through eight years the DurumI
wheat has yielded about twice the
crops Of the other wheats. This
means. Of course. more than twice
4 the profits, as it costs as much to |
grow a poor4crop as good one. mi
dry seasons. also, there is an addedl
advantage in the importation. A it'll
tie further east where there is more |
rainfall, the advantage or the DnrunlE
IS from II TO 25 per cent in yield. In I
to. the still dryer regions OF the wes-
tern Dakotas the crop has spread and
shown al increased production OF Is
per cent. has surpassed the old |
varieties on the plains of Nebraska
among the dry farms Of Colorado and! !
Wyoming, and i has even crowded itst
way down into Kansas which is Civ
en- over mostly to winter wheat. Tho |
areel OIL IN which it has the adyanta gef
is, however. limited. Where the RANT
fall is heavy there are varieties tIlatl
are better fitted. Where winter wheat
may be grown to advantage, it IS a
better crop than spring wheat Butt
Tor the great plains, that region that !
was particularly in need of help the
1Drur.lm wheat is bringing d new Opt
portunity
This season. with high prices in
wiling the planters Of spring wheat
to bring under cultivation every pos
sible acre. there Is is little questions
but that lands will be sown which,
would not otherwise have been farm
ed. There will be wheat planted fort
small yields that would not have been
profitable with cheap wheat. There
is no crop that can be grown more
cl1eaply than spring wheat, and there
fore no other crop that can pay sol
small yield. And there is always
the possibility of all conditions beingE
Just II ght, and the results being ex-l
.ceptionalIy profitable So it may BEL
stated as a certainty that there will
be such activity on the great plains
for the next two months as was #nev-t
.er known before.
Difficult to Estimate.
With a known production of 30 900. III
600 bushels OF Durum wheat, it is stilli
d1fhcult to estimate the value thatI
mas been added to the American cropl
because a man who was acquaintedi
M t7nFo1 ~
Not all that amount Of grain may be 4
credited to this introduction. as 1nanyt
OF these farmers would have grownt
other Wheats had they not planted this3
variety: But the Increased production
and the yield from lands that would
Otherwise have been barren unques-t
tionably adds to the crops OF Ameri-E
can farms, values every year thatt
mount into the millions. And So Il
new land profits by the fact that q
strange people on the other side ofl
the world planted, century after cen-i
fury, under unfayorable conditions,
the same sort of wheat. and thatl
that wheat gradually developed anil
tons under which it was asked to
grow.
The United States has profited by|
many crops that we're not native to ii. II
There is cotton, for instance, which,
had its natural home in the tropics.
where it is a tree. growing steadily
through the seasons. But in the n
United States 1T became a little shrub
living under such conditions as nature
had never intended for it, and yeti
served purpose far beyond that in
Its native habitat. There are manyl
such crops that have developed by
accident, after having been brought
into this country. But tDurutn wheat \
is among the first OF the important1
products Of the soil that has been de- II
liberately intro duced to serve a Civ
en- purpose and because man figured
in advance that it would accomplish
given ends. It Is one of the first great
successes scored along. this line, and
because the government has takenI
thought Of the future welfare or itsl
citizens.
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