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Show ALASKA WHEAT. - Prof W. H. Olin, agronomist .pf the Colorado Experiment Station, writes: "I am pained to know that some .unscrupulous persons arc seeking to deceive our industrious farmers, dc-siring dc-siring better milling wheat, by foist-iifg foist-iifg upon them the so-called 'Alaska Wheat' as a superior milling wheat, ' of high yielding quality. "Through the courtesy of Mr. Hal-scy Hal-scy C Rhoadcs of Denver, Prof. Knorr and myself have been privileged privi-leged to make a study of this .wheat in the field. We sceddd it by the side of known Egyptian, or Seven Headed wheat, and have studied both wheats from germination to maturity. The two wheats arc absolutely identical. After harvest we will make the milling mill-ing test of both wheale and publish a bulletin on the full results. - "Suffice to say now, Egyptian, Seven Headed, Mummy, or Alaska wheat (the various names by which it is known) is a soft spring wheat, not ' v '.r desirable to Colorado millers, and where grown to any appreciable extent ex-tent in this state, will be discounted or docked in price fy Colorado millers. mil-lers. Instead of being a very desirable desir-able wheat for milling purposes, it is quite the reverse, since it has high starch content and low gluten content con-tent of poor quality. Farmers arc warned to avoid this wheat as they would a pestilence. ' f |