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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, AST01UA, OREGON.
SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1908.
NEW KIND OF WHEAT
. ..WARRANTED PURE....
Bernett's Extradl
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A PRETTY BIRTHDAY
; PARTY
"NO HIT" PITCHING FEATS.
It was a jolly crowd indeed that
gathered at the Irving Hotel dining
room last night to celebrate the
, birthday anniversary of Miss Leota
Howard, one of the popular members
f the Georgia Harper Company,
who are playing a stock engagement
at the Astoria theatre.
The happy affair was attended by
tie complete company in a body, and
they were agreeably surprised at the
keautifuf sight that greeted them up
n entering the dining room, which
was decorated in an elaborate man
ner, for the occasion, in a profusion
of pink . decorations, besides many
flowers and ferns of various descrip
tions, which added greatly to the
. beauty of the pleasant surroundings.
, Miss Howard received many tokens
ef friendship which bespeaks best ,
Wiltst's Ractnt Ten Inning 8hutout
Game a Great Performance.
The feats of old Cy Young of the
Boston Americans and George Wlltse
of the New York Nationals In pitching
I no hit games recently hare earned
place In the baseball hall of fame for
both. WUtse's work was little short
of remarkable, as only one Phlladel
pbia player reached first base In n ten
inning struggle. Better yet. It points
to the conclusion that be Is back In his
best form at a time when bis services
will be particularly valuable to the
Giants, who are surely in line for the
pennaut If they can keep up their pres
ent gait So far as ran be remember
ed, it was the first no bit game Wlltse
ever pitched Mathewson has two to
his credit and old Cy Young three
The last named accomplished the feat
first in 1S97. lie got another In 1904
tsalnst Philadelphia and bis third re
cently against the Yankees.
Upton to Challenge Again.
Apparently authoritative statements
In England are to the effect that Sir
Thomas Lipton intends shortly to chal
lenge again for the America's enp with
the kindlv feelinir among the com-'.a boat -conforming to trie American
yany. Among the presents was araclnf ,e- W tha w,tb. ",e
, . . ... , . permission of the New York laebt
locket and chain, a beautiful pearl y gIf Thomag wl buM two rac.
nng, a silver rouet set, ana many ats and after matins tests will
bring the better of the two to America
as the challenger.
other gifts, that were all graciously
received by the happy hostess.
Mr. Berrell acted as toastmaster
for the occasion, and several among
die gathering responded in short ad
dresses wishing Miss Howard many
iappy returns of the day, and other
appropriate short talks. A splendid
repast ' was served, after which the
company entertained among them
selves by songs and recitations, and
by the Harper quartet who ren
dered pleasing selections.
Those who were present at the
pleasant function were: Miss Leota
Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Georgia Har
per, Mr. and Mrs. Berrell, Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Mayo, Mr. and Mrs. Bly-
ien, Miss Evelyn Green, Miss Fran
ce Williamson, Mr. Glen Harper,
Mr. Joseph Detrick, Mr. Paul Mac
Reynolds, Mr. Jack McDonald, and
Ifr. Volney Ballinger.
When the night was growing into
tie small hours of the morning the
delightful company all joined in the
sweet song of "Auld Lang Syne,"
after which the party disbanded all
agreeing that the affair was a com
plete success.
Trotter Tivertin on Shelf.
It has been announced that Tiverton,
2.0414, one of the fastest geldings ttmt
trer faced a starter, linn been laid on
the shelf. It will be remembered that
Tiverton was last winter taken up and
Jogged and all spring has been in the
lands of John Howell, who bo suc
cessfully raced him and who, after
trying In every manner possible to get
him to stand the preparation necessary
for the hard racing he would1 have to
undergo, has finally bad to give op
and send him back to bis fwner.
Burnett Released.
The St Louis National league ehib
has released Outfielder Birnett to the
Tacoma club.
GREAT BOY IS WOOD.
Kansas City Lad Won't Stay Out of
Big Leagues Long.
The Kansas City baseball team has
a star of stars in young Joe Wood.
Wood pitched last year for Hutch
inson. Kan., and did such great work
Hint he was signed by Kansas City.
Now be is mowing down the Ameri
can association batters at a marvelous
rate, and President Taylor has taken
an option ou him for the Boston
American league team, for which he
ttlil doubtless perform next year.
Wood has good control, great speed
and a bewildering break to his curve
U1I. Keceniiy lie held the .Milwaukee
t;ain to no hits and no runs. He did
not hit a man or give a base on balls.
Only twenty -eight batters faced him.
Not a man reached first until there
was one out In the ninth inning. Then
an error gave one man a life, but be
did not reacji second base.
200 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE
Statements That Hardly Bear Stamp
of Credibility Are Sent Out From
Little Northwestern Town Is a
Hard Wheat That Gradei High.
Tommy Spoke.
Minister--If any one present can
show cause why this couple should not
become man and wife, let him speak
now or forever hold his peace. Tommy
-I kin, mister. He thinks aunty's only
twenty-five, and she's forty.
Economy may be the road to wealth,
but nine-tenths of those who are com
pelled to travel it never reach the goal.
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JUUETTG, Ida., July 25.-H some
one were to tell the average wheat
farmer, that it was possible to raise
wheat crop on United States farms
m one year, of hve billions of bush
els, he would probably brand his in
formant as a liar pure and simple,
and yet had the farmers in America
planted a wonderful new wheat seed
that has been perfected by Abraham
Adams of Juliaetta, Idaho, that is
just what the yield would have been
this season, based upon the probable
crop of the year, according to a re
port
Connected with this assertion is
the greatest story that has ever been
told, far greatcrt than the wilde
dream of the wheat king, in the secu
rity of his vast domain and the de
manU for his golden harvest. The
United States paid eighty millions of
money for Alaska, and yet the great
gold payment Alaska has returned,
sinks into insignificance when com
pared with Farmer Adams "Alaska
Wheat, which in the secret and far
away fields of Idaho, he has gradu
ally brought 'to perfection until he
has given to the world, a wheat that
will grow tinder average conditions,
two hundred bushels to the acre.
This is a large assertion, and hard
believable were it not for the fact
that it is backed tip by surveys of
land and output of threshers; and the
ield and quality backed up by the
Idaho experimental station at Mos
cow Idaho, and being tonowea up
by other stations, all eager to make
test to see if they can beat the
ield of the originator. The yield is
only a part of the great discovery,
for this Alaska Wheat, is both a win
ter and spring wheat, and when plan
ted as either, is a hard wheat that
will grade as No. I. Imagine a hard
winter wheat, for the great soft wheat
belts of the country, which with this
ew wheat can compete with the hard
wheat lands of the great northwest.
A brief history of this almost mir
aculous seed, is, given in a few words
by its modest originator, a plain man
who farms in a plain way, but who all
his life, until old age has lived with
and for his wheat and his finally giv
en the world the greatest gift any one
man has ever .been responsible for,
Mr. Adams' first perfect head of
wheat, came to realization in 1904
from an experimental plant, of the
spring of that year. This one head
he planted that fall, as winter wheat,
and the next year he secured seven
pounds of seed from that planting.
From the seven pounds, planted in the
spring ot lyuo, ne nervesten
pounds, an increase of over 222 times,
or a basic principle of 222 bushels to
the acre. Here comes another re
markable story of this wonderful
wheat. The 1545 pounds were sowed
in the fall, and that slimmer there
were terrific hail storms which put
the club and blue stem wheat so much
to the bad that many fields were nev
er harvested, yet from the Alaska
Wheat plots, there were gathered a
crop which threshed out 53,000
pounds. This when all other wheat
was rendered practically worthless.'
At about this time the Idaho sta,-
tion became interested in the wheat
and asked to make a test. Mr. Ad
ams carried a sample to the station
at Moscow, and after a most thor
ough test, received the following re
ply:
"Regarding the analysis made up
on the sample of Alaska Wheat which
you brought .to this laboratory, I
have this to say:The kernals from the
fall sown wheat were plump and
sound and doubtless will grade as
number one. Judging from the che
mical and physical condition of this
sample I will say it will probably take
rank with the best grade of Blue Stem
for flour making purposes. The sam
ple grown from' spring sown wheat
showed by chemical analysis a some
what higher protein content (this be
ing an indication of its probable
strength for bread making purposes.)
I am inclined to think that the wheat
you have here is equal if not the su
perior of our Blue Stem lor flour ma-
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king purposes. 1 should like to make
a mill test whenever you can send
sufficient quantity for that purpose.
Very truly, J. S. JONES, State Che
mist." In appearance, the standing wheat
is strong and vigorous, with a corn
like growth. Its head in the bearing
part is about four inches long to over
that, and an inch and a half broad at
its broadest prt. The kernel is about
four times the size of hard wheat and
a clear light cream color without a'
(lark spot, as clean as hulled peanuts,
in color. It is almost absolutely
frost protected and it would be a
hard frost that would touch it. Its
sturdiness makes it impervious to or
dinary storm or light hail. It is or
iginally grown on high dry unirriga-
te land, and win stand drought as
no known wheat will. Add all these
qualities to its enormous yielding pro
pensities, and it must be admitted
that the world has been turned topsy
turvey so far as wheat raising is con
cerned. California, where so much soft
wheat is grown, is beginning to take
up the Alaska Wheat, for they see
the opportunity of a hard wheat yield.
Farmers in Missouri and the east,
and in the south, where soft wheat is
all that can be raised, with success,
are beginnig to think of what is in
store for them when some neighbor
convinces them by making a first trial,
that the wonderful Alaska Wheat sto
ry is not as much a fabrication as the
first story of seedless oranges was
thought to be. The wheat world is
trembling on the verge of a new era,
one in which the men with a hundred
acres, sudenly finds his farm increas
ed in area to a thousand acres, by the
discovery of one old farmer away out
in Idaho.
As a last test, Mr. Adams has sent
single heads of wheat to other parts
of the country where he had men he
could trust to plant and ascertain the
result. Reports are just coming to
him, and he finds that in other states
his Alaska Wheat does better than on
its home soil. In Alabama, a head
was planted Dec. 31, and was up Jan.
30, waist high April 1, with leaves 7-8
of an inch broad, and July 7 was har
vested. It showed to be hard wheat
of a fine quality, and the one head
yielded the same, as the first head
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planted in Idaho,
One Oregon experimental station
offered the originator $5 for a pound
of his wheat, a rate' of over $300 a
bushel. The old gentleman did not
prize the money. He only wanted
to be sure that some attache was not
striving to get away some of his seed.
He required a contract that the state
would not dispose of any wheat used
in the test, and upon securing that,
sent the seed asked for along. Now
the United States experimenters are
becoming interested, and next year's
report' will have much to say about
Abraham Adams and his wheat; the
old gentleman will at one step come
was much into prominence as Luther
Burbank, who,, although accomplish
ing hundreds of miracles with grow
ing things, has been eclipsed by this
man who has done wh.it the average,
fanner will believe is an impossibil
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