ALASKA AND STONER, OR MIRACLE/ WHEATS. , 19 



ground of stated size. That one got 12 bushels from a half acre, or 

 at the rate of 21 bushels to the acre. Part of the others tell what 

 they think their wheat will yield. The rest tell what their 2-pound 

 and 1-pound lots yielded without stating the size of the plat on 

 which these were sown. 



The statement is repeated that this wheat will yield more when 

 sown at the rate of 2 or 3 pecks per acre than when sown at 8 pecks, 

 or than other wheats will yield when sown at the usual rate. Ref- 

 erences are made to the size of the plants and the large number of 

 grains produced by them when widely spaced in the nursery. Defi- 

 nite statements that prove in any way the superior value of the 

 wheat was not found in the pamphlet. 



The pamphlet states that previously the wheat had been selling 

 at the rate of $1.25 a pound, with 1 pounds the largest quantity 

 sold to any one person. At this time, however, the price was re- 

 duced to $5 a bushel. 



In recent correspondence Mr. Stoner has stated that during 1911 

 and 1912 the demand for the seed was not very large. He states 

 further, however, that interest in the crop is increasing rapidly and 

 that during the last two seasons sales have been numerous. Previ- 

 ously much of the crop had been milled for lack of a demand fot* 

 it as seed wheat. 



Mr. Stoner still claims that his wheat is a superior yielder. He 

 still claims that it will make better yields from thin seeding than 

 other wheats will from thick seeding. He even advises using less 

 than a peck of seed to the acre and closing each alternate seed tube 

 in the drill. 



EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON STONER (MIRACLE) WHEAT, 



The Stoner (Miracle) wheat has been tested at several of the 

 State experiment stations and by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. These tests have been made in comparison with other 

 varieties, and the best approved methods have been used without 

 favor or bias. Actual yield tests in comparison with other varieties, 

 tests of the effect of different rates of seeding, and tests of the 

 tillering of the variety are therefore now available. 



YIELDS OF STONER WHEAT IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER VARIETIES. 

 TESTS AT THE MARYLAND AGEICULTXJEAL EXPEKIMENT STATION.^ 



At the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station the Stoner 

 (Miracle) wheat has been tested since 1912, in cooperation with the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, in one-twentieth acre 

 plats, with, the results shown in Table IV. 



i-For further data concerning the tests made at College Park, Md.. and at Arlington 

 Farm, Rosslyn, Va., see Stanton, T. R., Cereal Experiments in Maryland and Virginia, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Bui. No. 336, 52 p., 6 flg. 1916. 



