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Show j - ALASKA WHEAT AS SEEN BY A UTAH GROWER. , Editor Descrct Farmer: f I notice some very glaring reports published in some of the eastern papers about a certain man named Abraham Adams of Julictta, Idaho, going to Alaska to hunt goldl and instead of finding gold, the paper states he found a single head of wheat of wonderful dimension in a little nook under a clid supposed to have' been deposited there by "thet fowls of hc air. After a season he returned to Idaho vitl this head of wheat, rubbed, it out and sowed it. From this single head he raised seven pounds of wheat, which he again sowed and raised from it a wonderful crop amounting ' to several hundred pounds, and at the rate of 223 bushels per acre. The f report also states that he sent a .sample of it to the Moscow Experiment Experi-ment Station, and after a test the report re-port came vhat his wheat .would make better flour than the blue stein and would grade No. 1 hard. I therefore being in doubt as to the wonderful report, wrote a letter to A.' Adams asking him to tell me about this wheat; and if he had seed to sell to, quote me his price per bushel by re turn mail. 1 also wrote to the Director Di-rector of the Experiment Station at .Moscow, enclosing postage for return re-turn and asked him to kindly let me know if these reports are true I have now waited three weeks and have received no answer from the Experiment Station or Mr. Adams, but in plaec of which I received a circular from the Adams Seed & Grain Company, Idaho, which quote the wheat at twenty dollars per ibush-cl. ibush-cl. It also states that this wheat has one large head with several small heads around it. I really believe that this wheat is the old fashioned seven-headed wheat that we used to raise in Cache Valley forty-six and forty-seven years ago. It was "the poorest wheat for bread of any wc raised and yielded no more per acre than the old club and trousc. I therefore there-fore warn all c farmers of Cache Valley and the state of Utah to.be very careful . about purchasing any of this seed or they inuy get badly taken in. It reminds me of a report sent out by a certain man in New York, slating that all young ladies who would send him 20 cents in stamps, enclosing a self addressed stamped envelop, he would send them .by return mail full particulars of (how to make an impression). The answer icamc according to agreement. agree-ment. (Sit down in a pan of dough). That man was more generous than Adams, as he wants $20 for one bushel bush-el of wheat. Very respectfully yours, GEO. L. FARRELL. |