ALASKA AND STONER, OR " MIRACLE," WHEATS. 
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Similar tests to determine the tillering power of Stoner (Miracle) 
wheat were conducted in the years 1909, 1911, and 1912 at Nephi, 
Utah, by the United States Department of Agriculture in coopera- 
tion with the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. The sowing 
was in head rows 10 feet long and 1 foot apart, the seeds being placed 
4 inches apart in the row. The results are shown in Table X. 
The average number of culms produced by the plants of this 
wheat in the three years is 11. It is third in rank among the nine va- 
rieties tested for all or part of the time, but it produced eight culms 
less than the best tillering variety, the Turkey, which produced an 
average of 19 culms per plant for the three years. In no year was 
the Stoner wheat highest in culms produced. In yield this wheat 
ranks third as an average for all varieties tested for the three years. 
A yield test in head rows, however, is inclusive. Yield tests in one- 
twentieth acre plats at Nephi have been previously reported. 
Table X. — Tillering poioer and yield of Stoner (Miracle) wheat and eight other 
ictieats at Nephi, Utah, in the years 1909, 1911, and 1912. 
C. I. No. 
Variety. 
Class. 
Average number of 
heads per plant. 
Yield per row (grams). 
1909 
1911 
1912 
Aver- 
age. 
1909 
1911 
1912 
Aver- 
age. 
3055-13 
Turkey 
Koffoid 
Gold Coin 
Miracle 
Alaska 
Black Don 
Silver Club.... 
Galgalos 
Durum 
Hard red winter 
Soft white winter . . 
do 
Semihard red win- 
ter. 
Soft white winter 
(or spring). 
13 
9 
7 
7 
3 
5 
7 
6 
4 
25 
16 
16 
16 
18 
10 
7 
11 
19 
12 
10 
11 
3 
5 
7 
6 
3 
210 
253 
191 
213 
47 
56 
211 
144 
181 
265 
165 
186 
148 
157 
129 
116 
180 
2997-5 
225 
2996-2 
2980 
162 
172 
47 
2100 
5 
25 
41 
3001-1 
Soft winter club 
Soft white spring... 
Durum 
211 
2398-1 . 
144 
2934-1 . . . 
3 
3 
6.8 
13.5 
9.8 
8.2 
165.6 
164.4 
137.5 
147.7 
GENERAL TESTS BY STATE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
TESTS IN KENTUCKY. 
The following results of tests of Miracle wheat made at the Ken- 
tucky Agricultural Experiment Station are published in Bulletin 
155 of that station : 
Seed sown per acre. 
Yield per acre in 1911. 
Miracle. 
Harvest 
King. 
2 pecks. 
3 pecks. 
4 pecks. 
5 pecks. 
6 pecks. 
7 pecks. 
8 pecks. 
Bushels. 
35.0 
35.0 
34.7 
36.3 
25.0 
