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Show o- Within the past few weeks this pf-ficc pf-ficc has received two or three circulars cir-culars from some unknown source setting forth in very glowing terms the properties of the so-called "Alaska "Alas-ka Wheat," claimed to luivc been originated! or-iginated! by a Mr. Adams of Juliactta, Idaho. The proposition looked fak to us and the gratuitous copy found its way promptly to our waste basket instead of into our columns. The statement in our last issue from Prof. II. T. French, Director of University of Idaho, and the statement recently made by the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture branding the story as a fake proves the correctness of our surmise. sur-mise. The department denies that this is a new or even vpluable variety of wheat, and asserts that it is nothing noth-ing more nor less than "mummy wheat"-which caught many suckers years ago. The fact that' the wheat is selling at -$20 and $25 per bushel lends the department to 'brand the B stories as a clever advertising schcm H The, so-called Alaska wheat has been H known to the depaftmentfor ycaro B and schemes similar to the present H have been practiced at intcrvils for I many years. As long as there i B gold wc may expect to hear of gold I bricks. Rural Spirit. n . H |