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DAILY EAST OREUOOTAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1908.
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Abraham Adams, the discoverer of
the famous Alaskan wheat of which
o much hag been said, writes the fol
lowing lengthy letter concerning the
new wheat. As Umatilla county far
men are Interested In It the East
Oregonlan takes pleasure In reproduc
ing Mr. Adams" letter a follows:
"To the Public: In the last Sun
day Issue of The Spokesman-Review
Professor Elliot of the Washington
Agricultural college appeared with a
"report" denouncing my wheat as a
fraud. After studying my wheat all
summer he has discovered that there
are eight distinct groups of wheat
and my wheat belongs In the 'seventh'
group, which is, so he says, fit for
nothing not even for stock feed. As
to his classification of wheat I have
nothing to say. For all I know there
may be another additional eight
groups, although that is hardly prob
able, since, If there were, Professor
Elliot would no doubt have succeed
ed In 'scientifically demonstrating
my wheat to be still further remote
from a bread wheat than he did. But
that is neither here nor there. Pro
fessor Elliot makes some assertions
so flagrantly unjust that I wish to
call attention to them
Says Plure Is Unfair.
"At the outset I wish to call atten
tion to the photograph which Is pub
lished in connection with the report,
purporting to be 'specimens of the
Alaska wheat.' It seems hardly ne
cessary to say that the photograph is
extremely unfair. It is always pos
sible to go into any field of growing
grain and find 'freak" heads and also
undeveloped heads. In the photo
graph are six heads which Professor
Elliot asserts are representative '
heads. One of these six seems to
have been a head of red Russian, an
other seems to be an undeveloped
secondary shoot and the rest are
heads more or less 'freakish' in de
velopment. "Professor Elliot states that he has
personally visited the growing fields.
He seems from reports, to have visit
ed a field near Moscow, Idaho, ana
he Is convinced that the Alaska wheat
Is a poor yielder. The following
statement was made In writing by the
man who threshed that field of my
wheat
Statement by Threxlier.
" 'I threshed some of your Alaska
wheat and also some red Russian
wheat In the adjoining field. Tour
wheat yielik-d about three bushels to
one of the red Russian. The red Rus
sian was a better stand than the
Alaska. Tours truly,
" 'FRANK BENNETT.'
"Professor Elliot asserts that the
wheat Is of a low milling value. This
broad assertion he qualifies a little
lajer by saying that 'the millers are
yet to be heard from.'
"All In good time I will have an of
ficial milling test, and by It my belief
that the wheat will make flour will
be fully established. In case the test
proves that I am mistaken I will feed
the wheat to the hogs that Is, pro
vided they will eat It.
"How does Professor Elliot know
that It will not make flour before
such a test is made? He has made no
milling test. I do not even know
that he has gone to the trouble of
making a chemical analysis. The ce
reallst of the agricultural department
at Washington Is more disposed to be
fair In regard to the wheat. He ad
mits, at least, that the wheat may
make flour and that it should not be
condemned because It happens to re
semble a known variety, before It has
been given a fair test. It seems that
Professor Ellott was, to say the least, j
a little premature with his sweeping
report- condemning my wheat as
worthless.
Head Size No Objection,
"Further on In his report the pro'
fissor explains that my wheat 'stools
very Fparlngly and will not cover
ground like the little club or red
Russian, ' and moreover that the
weight of the heads Is so great that
It 'causes the stems to droop heavily.
In fact the very size of the heads is
a most serious objection to the va
riety, as It can not stand erect and In
spite of a fairly stiff straw Is sure to
lodge badly.'
"I might say that there Is certainly
no danger of the heads In Professor
Ellott's photograph of 'specimen
heads' lodging any straw on account
of sizo and weight, but that would be
merely quibbling. However, I have
personally counted as many as St
straws In a stool and, having raised
the wheat now for three years, I have
never seen It lodge. But, In order
that the public may not be forced to
rely upon my upsupported word, I
have the following affidavit from the
farmers who raised my this year's
crop;
"The farmers are A. H. Roberts, S.
W. Bingham and Ralph Robert
" 'Whereas. Certain conflicting stor
ies are being industriously circulated
concerning the Alaska wheat, we,
the undersigned farmers, do hereby
certify that, in the year of 1908, we
raised the said Alaska wheat for Ab
raham Adams of Jullaetta, and the
following statements are true to the
best of our knowledge:
" '1. We raised the said Alaska
wheat on land which had already
grown several crops and stood badly
in need of summer fallowing.
" '2. The said Alaska wheat will
fourish In spite of drouth better than
any other wheat that we have seen.
" '3. We seeded one (1) bushel or
less to the acre. The seed was giv
en up very poorly cleaned and at least
40 per cent of It cracked, In which
condition we put It In the ground.
"'4. The spring of the year 1908
was cold and wet, materially retard
ing the growing fields, the Alaska
wheat among others.
" '6. The cutworms were bad, de
stroying large portions of the grow
ing grain. The Alaska suffered heav
ily. " '6. In spite of statements to the
contrary, the said Alaska wheat,
which we raised on our fields, stood
up without lodging or shelling out
under a windstorm so severe that the
beards were blown off.
" '7. In our Judgment, under the
this year's adverse conditions and on
the poorest of soil, we raised twice
as much of the Alaska wheat per acre
as we could have raised had we put
club wheat on the same ground.
" '8. The Alaska wheat does not
shatter in harvesting.
" "9. While other wheats are bad
ly affected, the Alaska wheat is free
from smut.
" '10. All statements to the con
trary notwithstanding, the fields of
Alaska wheat which we harvested this
year were not badly mixed with any
other varieties of wheat.
" '11. The Alaska wheat harvested
by us was characterized by large and
plump grains.
" '12. Whereas, It Is said that there
is no demand for Alaska when among
the farmers of this community, we
intend to seed for ourselves as much
of the Alaska wheat as Mr. Adams
will sell us.
" '13. Whereas, certain press re
ports would make It appear that the
Alaska wheat stools very sparingly,
we affirm that it will stool equal to
other varieties of wheat.'
"On top of this affidavit, here is
what another threshing machine man
has to say:
" 'I, W. A. Whitten. have finished
threshing 30 acres of the Alaska
wheat for Abraham Adams and, by
looking over the ground, I am con
vinced that there was not to exceed
one-third of a proper stand of wheat.
and I threshed out 601 sacks of
heat.'
Says Mill Was Inefficient.
"In the same Issue of the Spokesman-Review
appears an article under
tiie heading 'Adams Wished No Mill
ing Test.' In it Is recited the fact that
I did not permit the Vanpelt & Sieg
ler flour mill, at Leland, Idaho, to
make a milling test of my wheat
whun they cleaned my seed wheat
last fall. There were two reasons for
my refusal to permit them to make
the test: First, I desired to put as
many acres into Alaska wheat as pos
sible and I had only 837 bushels. Sec
ond, -the Vanpelt & Siegier mill is
noted for the poor quality of flour,
and I did not think it worth while to
let It make the test.
"The fact that this year's yield
would be light has never been denied
by myself. After having watched my
fields mature, I am surprised to find
that they are yielding as well as they
are. The above affidavits explain the
reasons for the light yield without
any necessity for further details.
"froressor Elliott makes the pre
diction that 'three years from now
Alaska wheat will be only a mem
ory.' Perhaps but then, the pro
fessor may be mistaken. Respect
fully, ABRAHAM ADAMS,
"Jullaetta. Idaho."
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another
Cohoon, supervisor of th
forest reserve, has thro
launches In operation and
under construction for th
ronveninnre of the service. One
launch is on the fmpqua, another on
the Siuslaw, and a third on the Alsea
river. The fourth launch Is being
built for Smith river, a brunch of th
Umpqua Inlet, which is navigable tot
12 miles.
All of these streams have a num
ber of miles of navigable water, usu
ally Just as far as the tide reaches,
on the main trunk and Its hranches
The Umpqua river of Itself run
back nearly 30 miles, the Sluslaw
over 20, while the Alsea extends back
into the Interior perhaps 15.
The government has been put to
considerable expense by not having
launches at the service of the rang
ers. One time Mr. Cohoon had to
wait a whole day to cross one of the
streams. By the rules governing the
boats, they can only be used for gov
ernment purposes. At any time when
a traveler or settler can be aided
when In trouble by the launches and
the man or men In control, the In
structions are that they shall be pu
at the service of the unfortunate.
In fact, this U one of the prlncl
pies of the whole service, and the set
tlers frequently find themselves In
debted to the rangers who look after
the Interests of the government.
AMERICA IS CALLED
TH ELAND O FEIRES
Clinic for Animals.
Utlca, N. Y., Sept. 2. A free clin
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annual convention of the New York
State Veterinary Medical association,
In session here today. A discussion
of rabies and tuberculosis In animals
Is also an Important part of the program.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
are for weak back, backache, rheu
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bladder and all other annoyances due
to weak kidneys. They are sold by
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"Th Land of Fires Is the name
given to America In a recent number
of the Outlook, and the facts given
In support of the appropriateness of
the title are forceful, and all tho more
so because the table Ignores fires In
American cities where, the aggregate
loss was below $10,000,000 a large
sum in Itself.
The table Includes a number of Co
nadlan cities, with the city of Hya
clnthe and its 115,000,000 fire of
1876; St. Johns, New Brunswick,
with Its fire loss in the same amount
In 1877, and It reached down to the
continent of South America, with
Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Its 1896 fire
entailing a loss of $22,000,000 but
It Is to cities within the United States
the attention of the observer will be
directed, for the losses are appalling,
as the list shows:
1836, Dec. 10, New York. .$17,600,000
1851, May 4, St. Louis.... 16,000,000
1861, Dec. 12, Charleston
S. C. 10,000,000
1866, July 4, Portland Me. 10,040,000
1871, Oct. 8, Chicago 166,000,000
1872, Nov. 9, Boston 70,000,000
1901, May 3, Jacksonville,
Fla 10,050,000
1904, Feb. 7, Baltimore.. 60.000,000
1906, April 18, San Francis
co .360,000,000
Nine cities of the United States,
contributing an aggregate fire loss of
$697,660,000 since 1835, Is a showing1
for which not people wold be pre
pared, especially with $10,000,000
fires alone admitted to the list
Northwest Fair Dates.
Following Is the list of northwest
fair dates:
Everett, Wash., Sept 1-6.
Sclo, Ore., Sept. 2-4.
Roseburg, Ore., Sept. 2-5.
Pocatello, Idaho, Sept. 7-9.
Eugene, Ore., Sept 7-12.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 7-12.
Miles City, Mont., Sept. 8-10.
Dillon. Mont., Sept. 9-11.
Salem, Ore., Sept. 14-19.
Centralla, Wash., Sept 14-19.
Glendlve, Mont., Sept. 16-17.
Missoula, Mont., Sept. 21-26.
Portland, Ore., Sept. 21-26.
Victoria, B. C. Sept. 12-29.
Anaconda, Mont, Sept. 23-26.
Marshfield. Ore., Aug. 26-29.
Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 28-Oct. 3.
North Yakima, Wash., Sept.
Oct 3.
Helena, Mont., Sept. 28-Oct. I.
New Westminster, B. C, Sept 29
Oct. 3.
Spokane, Wash., Oct 6-10.
Caldwell, Idaho, Oct. 6-10.
Davenport, Wash., Oct. 8-11.
Lewlston, Idaho, Oct. 12-17.
Walla Walla, Wash., Oct. 12-17.
Baker City, Ore., Oct. 13-17.
Boise, Idaho, Oct. 19-24.
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