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A MIRACLE IN WHEAT KEW niCHES FROM ALASKA FOR THE FARMER. Hard Wheat From Fall Sowing â€" licldM I p to 222 UusheU to tlic Acre! When the United States paid eighty millions for the Territory of Alaska, it was to the fur the pur- chasers looked for a return on the investment. When gold began to pour in from that great country the investment was pronounced good. But not in gold alone was Alaska destined to repay those early states- men for their real-estate specula- tion. Years after the yellow metal was discovered, there came an aged farmer to that far uorthland, and took hack to the States the basis for wealth to his country by the side of which the gold from the hills and icj river-beds should pale into in- Bignifjcance, writes Oscar F. G. Day n the Saturday Evening Post. It was in 1903 that Abraham Ad- ams, a native of Kentucky, who had gone with the "star of Empire" to the great West to farm it, was taken with a desire to trv his for- tunes in Alaska^ Leaving his ranch in northern Idaho, he made a trip to the land of promise and of gold, but nothing came of his attempts at discovery. Turning his attention then to exploring, he drifted along the coast of eastern Alaska, where the Japan curron flows near the fhore and makes of the land from coast to mountain eternal spring. Many miles he explored, investigat- ing the possibilities of that country for future farming and grazing, preparing himself for a report to the farmers of his community. He found many beautiful baj's, sjilcndid beaches, sweeps of timber, and meadows heavy with juicy graB!"i3. Here and there were trac- es < â-  gold, but not v'' promising quan'.'ty, and then he clianced up- on A SUIU'IIISING DISCOVERY. Lodged in a nook under protecting rock, sheltered from the winds, was a little familiar patch. Interested at onof!, he investigated and found that here a patch of wheat was growing, far from any living hu- man that could have planted it. On hands and knees he pulled away the matted straws. Yes, it was certain- ly wheat that was just ripening. The explorer sought among the thick stems for some heads, but the T7ild game had been before him, and ho was just about to give up when lie discovered one head of wheat almost intact. A gigantic head it was ! Fully four inches long with its rough bearding, and broad in proportion. Packing the head carefully away, the old man brought it back with him to his ranch at Jiiliactta, Ida- ho. Not a word did he say to his r.eighbors of his find. Whether it was wild wheat or not he could not say. Perhaps, some wild bird had filled its crop with the grains in an unknown region, where it grew na- tive, and coming to Alaska deposi- ted the seed in a fertile spot. And yet it was only curiosity that moved Abraham Adams. He never dream- ed of his find being of any value except as an experiment for his own pleasure. In the fall of 1904 Mr. Adams planted his head of Alaska wheat on high and all-too-dry land â€" the natural soil of Idaho. It grow rap- idly when the spring opened its fcunts, and in the summer he had ecvcn pounds of wheat from this one head. That was startling. He hardlv dared tell a farmer of it. He examined the kernels. Four times ns large as ordinary wheat, and in colorâ€" instead of the homely browii- inh-gray of wheat of commerce â€" the prettiest cream color without a darker spot. SEVEN POUNDS OF WHEAT from one head, and the finest-look- ing wheat mortal had ever seen ! Abraham Adams began to dream. Having tested the grains as win- ter wheat, Mr. Adams saved his seven pounds to try as spring wheat, and in 1900 he planted the whole seven pounds. Sturdily it grew, and when it was harvested hn weighed 1646 pounds, His Alas- ka find had broken the world's re- cord for wheat yield ! More than two hundred and twenty-two bush- els to the acre was the ratio of yield, and that without any special petting or manipiilation. With the v.orld's average yield 12.7 bushels to the acre, and a fair yield for ex- Salisfaetion moans "that which satisfies." Use "Salada" Tea and you will appreciate this definition. Hold hy aP grocers in scaled lend packets only. ceptional land of twenty bushels here was the prospect of a miracle ; a revolution in the wheat industry of the world. But still there was something that might dash every hope of a wheat miracle. Was this Alaska wheat of good quality 1 Would it make »;ood bread f With this last idea m mind the experimenting farmer carried .•» small quantity of his wheat to the Idaho experiment station at Mos- cow . He knew he had a wheat that yielded past any belief. He had something marvelous in a wheat that yielded ecjually as w ell planted winter or spring. Did he have a good wheat? The chemists and ex- perts at the station tested it and pronounced it a good quality of hard wheat. Hard wheat! That was suflScient. But Adams knew be must have patience for another year. In the fall of 1908 the 1545 pounds were planted in fiields by the side jf the famous Blue Stem and Club wheat grown in that section. Watch- ing their comparative growth, Mr. Adams picked on the • same day green heads of Club wheat and gren heads of his Alaska wheat, the latter so many times larger than the ordinary wheat that the Club wheat seemed hardly started. THE FARMER WAS JUBILANT. Then Nature took a hand, and hail- storms of the worst kind came, Icat-ng down the ordinary wheat until it was not fit to harvest. The farmer, discouraged, went out to his Alaska wheat-fields and saw that the sturdy stems had partly withstood the storms, and he finally harvested 53,000 pounds of seed. Now was the time to make his fin al test._ He had enough for a test from winter-grown. Taking this to the experimental station, he soon received a report which made him for the first time that he had some- thing worth giving to the public. The station chemist wrote : "The kernels from the fall-sown wheat were plump and sound and doubtless will grade No. 1. .Judging from the chemical and physical con- dition of this sample, it will pro- bably take rank with the best grade of Blue Stem for flour. "The sample grown from spring- sown wheat showed by chemical analysis a somewhat higher protein content (this being an indication of its probable strength for brcad- inak-ng purposes). I am inclined to think that the wheat that you have here is the equal, if not the superior, of our Blue Stem for (lour-making purposes. I should like to make a mill test whenever you can send me a sufficient quan- tity for that purpose." These are the facts about the won- derful wheat of which the world will soon be talking. Farmers do not believe it ; wheat speculators do not believe it; but those who have traveled to see it do believe it. Mr. Adams had his fields surveyed and has absolute proof of the yield from each field. Te has tried his wheat in other lands, and in some places it did better than in Idaho. Alabama raised wheat from it with leaves seven-eighths of an inch broad, GROWING LIKE CORNSTALKS. As a last test, Mr. Adams sent single heads of wheat to other parts of the country where he had men he could trust to plant and ascer- tain the result. Reports are just coming to him, and he finds that in other States his Alaska wheat docs better than on its home soil. In Ala- bama a head was planted Decem- ber 31, was up January 30, waist- high April 1, with leaves seven- eighths of an inch broad, and July 7 was harvested. It showed to be hard wheat of a fine quality, and the one head yielded the same as the first head planted in Idaho. Under ordinary soil conditions the new wheat will yield two hun- dred bushels to the acre, under ex- tra conditions above that. What will be the outcome? Had all America had Alaska wheat to seed this year, the American crop alone would have been five billions .;f bushels. Does that not mean a revolution in the wheat indurtry? Will the food of the poor become 80 cheap that there will be no fam- ii'es? Or will farm property rise in value with the capacity for the yield? All this is conjecture, but these things arc certain : That wheat Alaska has given lis will withstand hail if not too heavy. It will withstand frost. It grows hard wheat from fall sowing. It yields up to 222 bushels to the acre. It will grade up to No. 1 hard. And, last and best of all, it will bring back wheat-raising to the worn-out farms of the East whore, with wheat-yields two hundred bushels to the acre, farmers can af- ford to use manures and chemicals, and make a profit. If all America could seed with the new wheat it would, at only fifty cents a bushel, add nearly two and a half billions of dollars to the^ wealth of the farmers every year. TWENTY-DOLLAR WHEAT. S'nce the above article was in type the following despatch has been received from Spokane, Wash- ington : â€" "In the Juliaetta county, in northern Idaho, Abraham Adams, formerly a lumberman in Wiscon- sin, will clean up more than $1,- 000,000 from 700 acres of land this season, in addition to producing grain which gives every promise of revolutionizing the wheat produc- tion of the world. Conservative es- timates place the crop at from 70,- 000 to 75,000 bushels of grain, which Adams and his son-in-law, O. K. Hobe, a wholesale lumber dealer of Minneapolis, have contracted to f-ell to farmers at $20 a bushel, not more than one bushel going to each buyer. "Adams acquired a tract of land in the Gem State six years ago and sowed his land to wheat, harvesting from 23 to 30 bushels of blue stem club and other varieties from every acre under cultivation. "One day early in 1904 he receiv- ed a single stalk of wheat, picked by a friend in one of the fertile val- leys in Alaska, and sowed the ker- nels in his back garden. A crop i^f seven pounds resulted the follow- ing summer. This Adams planted in the spring of 1906. harvesting i,545 pounds of grain in July, or over 220 bushels per acre. Embold- ened by his success he sowed the en- tire crop in the fall of 1906, an 1 last summer cut enough grain to sow 700 acres of land, from which is now being rut what is believed to be the world's record yield." ^^^lyuu RIGHT HANDEDNESS. Row One Hand Came to be Chosen For Special Training. Fixed in all our military and so- cial customs and living at the base of language itself are two facts which solve the riddle and make clear whence and how right-hani- edness arose. In all tribes and countries since man used imple- ments of offense and defence, the sinistral or cardiac side was pro- tected by the shield and the sinis- tral hand was called the shield band, as the dcxtral was called the spear hand. Next to fighting and contemporary with it was the need cf barter. Now, the fundamental condition of bartering was count- ing with the low numbers, one to ten. The fingers of the free or dex- tral hand were, naturally, first used. Every drill and action of the soldier, is dcxtral in every detail. The dominancy of the right eye is shown in firing from the right shoulder and sighting with the right eye. â€" .--J* HOT WEATHER AILMENTS A medicine that will keep children well is a great boon to every mo- ther. This is just what Baby's Own Tablets" do. An occasional dose keeps the little stomach and bowels right, and prevents sickness. During the hot weather months stomach troubles speedily turn to fetal diarrhoea or cholera infan- tum and if a medicine like Babe's Own Tablets is not at hand the child may die in a few hours. The wise mother will always keep a box o;' Tablets in the house and give them to her children occasionally tf clear out the stomach and bow- els and keep them well. Don't uait until the child is sickâ€" the de- lay may cost a precious littie life. Get the Tablets now and you may feel reasonably safe. Every mo- ther who uses these Tablets praises them and that is the best evidence that there is no other medicine for children so good. And the mother has the guarantee of a government analyst that the Tablets contain no opiate or harmful drug. Dea- lers sell the Tablets at 26 cents a box or you can get them by mail from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockvillo, Ont. L The Difference in Sewing Machines Q It is a mistaken idea that sewing machines are pretty much alike, when as a mattec of fact there is a vast difference. 9 There is but one machine that sews bettef than any other â€" and that one is the Singer. 9 This is because the Singer idea is <&• tinctive â€" every year shows improvement in that idea. Q This is because the Singer factories are not only equipped with tools and machinery, better calculated to make good sewing ma- ,chines than any other, but this equipment is unique and not to be found elsewhere. ^ This is because a half century has been devoted to training and specializing men, each to do one thing best in sewing machine ' construction. The Singer's superiority- its lifetime-lasting value â€" does not appear. ^ on the surface. Q One machine does sew better than any other â€" and that one is the Singer. Sold only by Singer Sewing Machine Company TOPONTO 311 Mannlnj- Chamber* MONTREAL (33 Board of Trad. Bids WrNNIPcQ 104 Main Straat HEATING THE HOUSE. One hoars many objections to the use of furnaces. The most common cne is that rooms on the north side of the house are hard tu heat, if the house is in an exposed situa- tion and there is a heavy air pr-Js sure against one side of the hmiie, the heat is naturally driven to the other side, for not only is the cold air forced in on tho one side, Out it is drawn out on the other. It frequently happens that such a house should not have been heated bj hot air, but by hot water or steam; a mistake which the heating engineer should have avoided. A frequent ceuao' of trouble comes from having the furnace set in the middle of the collar, or perhaps on the opposite side from the col 1 rooms. This is a mistake; it should he on tho cold side, making the 'i i tancp to the coldert rooms as sh<.rt as ptKciblo.â€" Suburban Life. Indoors or outdoors there is nothing; quite so pood as Triscuitâ€" the Shredded Wheat Water, which contains in smallest bulk all the muscle-building, brain-producing qualities of wheat. TRY IT AS A TOAST WITH BUTFER. CHEESE OR FRUIT. SOLD BY ALL tlBOCKRS 1088 THE WORD. Today whatever may annoy, The word for me is joy, just simple joy; The joy of life ; The joy of children and of wife ; The joy of bright blue skies ; The joy of rain ; the glad surprise Of twinkling stars that shine at night; The joy of winged things upon their flight ; The joy of noon-day, and the tir^d True joyousness of eventide j The joy of labor, and of mirth ; The joy of air, and sea, aid earth â€" The countless joys that ever flow from Him Whose vast beneficence dot bd n The lustrous light of day. And lavish gifts divine upon our way. Whate'er there be of sorrow I'll put off till tomorrow. And when tomorrow comes, why then 'Twill be to-day and joy again ! â€" John Kendrick Bangs COURAGE OF INDIVIDUALITY. The test of true journalism, as of everything else, lies in its effects, which should be educative and ele- vating, infusing a love of right, a hatred of what is low, petcy and false, a zeal for the reform of what ii wrong and to uphold the cause of right and truth. If, in rising from the perusal of a journal we feel stimulated to take sides with the cause of righteousness and jus- tice, oven at tne seeming sacrifice of our personal interests, we feel assured that such a publication is founded on the enternal verities. Such a journalist asks himself first and foremost in the consideration 0? every topic, what is right, where lies the truth, and having settled this, all else is plain sailing. Thus tf elevate any subject is to remove un out of the mists and fogs of pre- judice and passion and petty per- sonality. Self and all its blinding influences are left behind, and the truth is Inminoua in its own heav- enly light. Such a journal can never he moved from its moorings, and any opposition is as futile as any angry waves at the base of i heaven piercing rock, whose bark- ing is unheard and unheeded at its si'iinmit. This is the spirit of true journalism; and this spirit should pervade its whole course. In this way the press can be made a power and a blessing. To lower the stand- ard to mere personality is pro tanto. t(. abuse the power of the press, to degrade those within its influence, and to be veered around with every wind of passion or self-interest. Such journalism is a counterfeit,, unworthy of the name. A CONTEST WORTH ENTEllINO, A Life Annuity of FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS is offered by the ORANGE MEAT people to the one sending in the largest number of bottoms of ORANGE MEAT pack- ages before May 31. 1909. This means that the winner will receiv© One Dollar EVERY WEEK, or FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS every year, as long a.s he or she lives, or they can exchange it for a CASH PRIZE (.r SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. 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