Show w I WHEAT PAYS WELL IN EAST Interesting Story of How New Yorkers York-ers Massachusetts Farm Raised Big Crop Springfield Mass Although the I wheat fields of the far west are generally gen-erally supposed to bo very large the department of agriculture has Issued an estimate that In states where the fields are the largest their size averages av-erages little more than 100 acres New England has the smallest wheat fields tho average In Vermont being only three That wheat Is indigenous to the soil of Massachusetts Is declared In tho reports of the Massachusetts Agricultural college and that It can be grown profitably In Berkshire county Is asserted by experts who have made an examination of the soil of tho hill towns A Lenox farmer George W For Kiison has this year harvested 417 bushels of winter wheat from ten and seven tonths acres of land and sold the wheat In a Pittsfield market for 260 a bushel The wheat Is to be used as seed wheat so clean and perfect per-fect was the product Mr Ferguson has for 16 years managed Pine Croft farm a typical country farm In Lenox owned by Frederick Augustus Sober merhorn of Now York Besides overseeing over-seeing a farm of 335 acres Mr Ferguson Fer-guson has served Lenox as a selectman select-man for several years and last year was chairman of the board Pine Croft comes up to ones ida of a country farm It Is not n city lot such as somo farms of Lenox millionaires million-aires become but Is the nearest to nature na-ture tint Its owner can make It Ono of the few groves of primeval forests In western Massachusetts are on this property Farmer Ferguson I began raising wheat to feed his poultry because be-cause wheat was high For several years ho produced enough wheat for homo consumption using the straw for bedding purposes Its return In value astonished him Ho found it of a good profit and determined up nan n-an p > rli < l1t the n cro lot ciow sections of luack grads H wanted to get rid of I thl growth mill lowed the lot and sowed It entirely to buckwheat This hardy grain successfully killed out the quack grass Its heavy body shutout shut-out the sun from the soil beneath Its bulky growth and tho foreign grass died from the want of sunshine With the buckwheat well along last year Mr Ferguson had It plowed under un-der and fertilized the lot with some fertilizer left over from the spring planting Possibly two tons of commercial com-mercial fertilizer was used In preparing pre-paring the field of over ten acres fpr red winter wheat which was sown From this experimental lot Mr Ferguson Fer-guson has Just reaped a bumper crop of wheat Not only was the wheat perfect In head every kernel being filled out but the body of straw wad excellent r |