The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-09-04
MODERN MIRACLE
SHOWN AT SIDNEY
KERNEL OF WHEAT iNCREAS-
ES TO $40 BUSHELS I'M
q YEARS
(Sidney Herald)

A single kernel of wheat since
1928 has multiplied by production
until this year of 1881 it is a flow
ing 16-acre field on the irrigated
farm of G.. P. Sorenson, one mile
north of Sidney which will yield
better than 40 bushels to the acre.
The foregoing is a simple state
ment of fact expressing a miracle
wrought by Mother Nature right
here under our very eyes which
would not have been known to the
world but through the coincidence
of this writer talking to a bust
ness man of Sidney a few minutes
after Mr.. Sorenson had shown him
a sample of the wheat. 1t was the
quality of the wheat and the long
heads more than the astonishing
increase it had made in four crop
seasons that had impressed Mr..
Sorenson who when We got hold
of him told of his wonderfully
productive experiment.
In 1928 Mr.. Sorenson noted four
heads of wheat rising nearly a
foot above the level of the fine
field of Marquis wheat on his dry
land farm in the Bronson commun-
ity, better known as Dane flat, a
bout Is miles west of Sidney. Up
on examination he discovered that
the four heads sprang from a
plant terminated from one
kernel of wheat which was not
Marquis and the name of which
he has been unable to learn from
any authority. The heads are
twice as long as the sturdy Mar
quis heads. Mr.. Sorenson watched
them ripen and then he plucked
them before he harvested the field
and shelled out the wheat, 232
kernels, an average of So plump
kernels to the head.
Deciding to do a little expert
nenting for the novelty of the
hing, Mr.. Sorenson in the spring
# 1929 planted the 232 kernels Of
wheat in his garden patch on his
irrigated farm and gave it every
ttention during the growing sea
on with the result that he she'll
d out Is pounds of seed when he
arvested the little crop that fall.
This success intensified his in
crest and the next spring, 1880,
sowed the Is pounds of seed
nd last fall got 10 bushels from
ne harvest. Now he had seed for
real project and last spring he
16 acres Of his valley 7
Irm for it, with what success we
u readers to the splendid !,
cid of flowing grain it has pro- ,
iced and which will soon be =
arnered to better ascertain. :
Estimating the production from :
lie 16 acres this year at 40 bush o
S to the acre, which is by 40 b
a record yield under irri- h
ytion here, we have $40 bushels !,
wheat as the increase of a sin y
e kernel of wheat in four plant =
gs. 1t is almost unbelievable but !,
e fact is incontrovertible and, 9,
deed, seems a miracle such as -
2 Bible only relates, where, for :.
, Christ multiplied the =,
hes to feed his followers. So :,
S that single kernel of wheat -
en- multiplied by Mother Nature D,
yond human anticipation. =,
now Mr.. Sorenson has nearly he
,ugh seed from his experiment b
a section of land. He will not at
re that acreage in the valley H
iilable for it aother year, but NJ.
| continue to raise the wheat ha
on a larger scale than this on
r, selling the excess produc- tn
l which will no doubt find an no
market for seed. ins
If. Sorenson is a native of Den of
k and came to this country, to ms
TX City, Iowa, in 1898, and to Co
locality from there in 1910 Jal
IN he settled on the Bronson the
nestead where he found the vii
k wheat in his field as stated mi
IRE. In 1926 he. bought the 40 jec
} tract in this valley north of tee
net