Helena, Montana. 
FIELD SEEDS— (Continued.) 121 
THE NEW BURBANK WHEAT 
From Actual Photograph, 1917 
The New Burhank Wheat 
By Luiher Burhank- 
"It is with unusual satisfaction that I now offer, for the first time, a Hmited quantity of my new wheat; 
the best result of ten years of most careful and expensive experiments. It has been tested alongside of sixty- 
eight of the best wheats of the world, and has excelled them all in yield, uniformity, and other desirable charac- 
teristics; the growth is strong, four feet on good ordinary soil, tillers unusually well, and on ordinary valley soil, 
without special cultivation, care or fertilizing, this Summer produced at the rate of forty-nine and 88-100 bush- 
els per acre, every plant and every kernel uniform, as this wheat was originally all grown from one single kernel. 
Even at present prices of ordinary wheat for milling purposes, it will be readily seen that the crop of each acre 
would purchase an acre of the best wheat land. 
TTie small field of this new Wheat has been the wonder and surprise of thousands who have seen it; noth- 
ing like it in uniformity and beauty ever having been seen before. The cut shows the exact appearance of the 
long, smooth, white, well-filled heads. Every kernel is guaranteed uniform and correct to tvpe. 
This, like all other wheats grown in California, is a Winter wheat and should probably be generally treat- 
ed as such, and will, no doubt, thrive better in new localities after it becomes acclimated by one or two sea- 
son's growrth. 
The quantity now on hand is extremely small compared with a most surprising and wholly unexpected de^ 
mand for it; no large lot can he supplied to any one. 
For such valuable wheat, drilling in rows with hand drills and cultivating between the rows will of course 
be of great advantage, and it might be well to save part of your seed for spring solving in Montana. 
This is a great stooling wheat, and it does not shell out easily in the field." 
As will be noted in the above description this new wheat is a California produrt, and while essentially a winter 
wheat, Mr. Burbank recognizes the fact that it will be well to test it as a Spring Wheat, in the climate of Montana, 
and we heartily endorse this view. Many of our customers are frying it out, both as a Winter and also as la Spring 
wheat in this section, and we shall be very glad to receive full reports of the results obtained in different localities 
under varying conditions. 
PRICE OF THE NEW BURBANK WHEAT— Per lb. F. O. B. Helena $5.00 
Order early — as all orders will be filled in strict rotation in the order of their receipt, and when the limited sup- 
ply we have been able to secure is exhausted, it will be impossible to secure any more this season. 
STATE NURSERY & SEED CO., HELENA, MONTANA. 
