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B URBAN ICS 1919 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
from select Argentina kinds and from Oklahoma. The wheats of the United States 
are often very far from uniform, though there are most notable exceptions. If my 
new wheats were in general use today there should be no deficiency, as the crop 
through the whole country would be enormously increased in quantity and value 
without one dollar more of expense for land, labor or fertilizer except the first 
outlay for the purchase of the improved kinds of seed. This early, hardy "Quality" 
wheat which I offer this season will not yield as much as some of the coarse maca- 
roni wheats in some warm, dry sections, but for general culture, with its unusual 
hardiness and extreme earliness, uniformity, superior milling and bread-making 
qualities, it stands alone. It most resembles in all these respects the hard Northern 
wheat "Prize Marquis," but has a vitreous white berry of quite different appear- 
ance and quality and of about the same specific gravity as of granite. The heads 
are of medium size, tapering to a point, beardless, and on ordinary land stand three 
and one-half to four feet in height. No trace of disease of any nature so far has 
ever affected it here. 
The chemical analysis and baking test of the new "Quality" wheat given below 
shows its unusual value. 
"Quality" Wheat 
CHEMICAL EXAMINATION 
% Moisture 11.60 
% Total Protein 14.20 
% N. G. Protein 1.42 
% G. Protein 12.78 
Gliadin No 69 
Glutenin No 31 
% Gliadin 8.82 
% Ash 63 
BAKING TEST 
Date baked 9-13-17 
Yeast Fleishmans 
% Absorption 62.0 
% Wet Gluten 38.2 
Color of gluten Very good 
Quality of gluten Very soft 
Time to rise 1 :49 
Time to bake :25 
Expansions 2 
Weight of dough 574 
Weight of loaf 518 
Loss 56 
Loaves per barrel 301 
Vol. of loaf 2225 
Color Excellent 
Texture Excellent 
Prices This Season 
All Prepaid by Mail or Express 
One-half pound $ 2.75 Ten pounds $45.00 
One pound 5.00 Five sample heads 60 
Five pounds 23.00 Ten sample heads 1.00 
Last year I purchased and sowed a pound of "Burbank" wheat which I bought 
from you. We regard the wheat as the most excellent grown in this state. I am 
extremely well pleased with it and those who have seen it regard it as in every 
way being a prize product. I want to congratulate you upon your most beneficial 
and untiring work. I believe it a complete revolution of the wheat growing indus- 
try, particularly in this state, for the reason that our average yield per acre here 
is only thirteen bushels of common wheat. — O. S. H., Okla. Thresherman's Associa- 
tion, Oklahoma City, Okla., July 23, 1918. 
Any one who opens the way out of the wilderness of wheat shortage or wheat 
insufficiency must stand in the light of a veritable Moses to the bakers. — T. T. F., 
National Association of Master Bakers, Columbus, Ohio, August 6, 1918. 
Your discovery will be of incalculable benefit to this fair land. — C. H. M. & Com- 
pany, Melbourne, Australia. 
It sounds incredible, but Mr. Burbank has the habit of compelling us to believe 
the unbelievable. The burden of the proof rests on the doubters, not on him. 
— Baltimore, Md., News. 
