ALASKA AND STONER, 
OR "miracle," WHEATS. 
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It is seen from the results here presented that this wheat has 
never ranked better than sixth in yield, and was then 5.9 bushels 
under the best variety tested. It has always ranked among the bet- 
ter half, but only once among the best fourth of the varieties tested. 
The 30 varieties and strains with which the Stoner (Miracle) 
wheat has been compared during the entire four years it has been 
grown, 1911 to 1914, inclusive, in the plat tests at Arlington Farm 
and the yields of these are shown in Table VI. Varieties that have 
not been grown in these comparative tests for the entire four years 
are omitted from the table. The varieties are arranged in the table 
according to average yield for the four years. It is here shown that 
this wheat has ranked tenth in the 31 kinds in average yield for 
this period, and has yielded 6.55 bushels less than the best variety. 
Table VI. 
■Yield of the varieties of winter wheat grown each year at Arlington 
Farm, Rosslyn, Va., 1911 to 1914, inclusive. 
CI. No. 
1915 
1733 
1957 
1945 
1979 
1744 
1912 
1942 
1930 
2980 
1949 
1923 
1973 
2008 
3617 
1981 
3277 
1969 
3614 
3608 
1974 
3616 
1933 
3618 
1911 
1980 
3610 
3609 
3613 
3611 
3612 
Variety. 
Purple Straw 
Dawson Golden Chaff. . 
Purple.Straw 
Lancaster 
Poole 
Genesee Giant 
Missouri Bluestem 
Bearded Winter Fife. . . 
Rocky Mountain 
Stoner (Miracle) 
Maryland Flint 
Fultz 
New Amber Longberry . 
Mammoth Red 
Hybrid 
Dietzi 
Virginia 
Michigan Amber 
Hybrid 
do 
Martin Amber 
Hybrid 
Jones Winter Fife 
Hybrid 
Bearded Purple Straw . . 
Fultzo-Mediterranean . . 
Hybrid 
do 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
Yield per acre (bushels). 
1911 1912 1913 1914 Average 
37.17 
36.00 
33.08 
29.08 
31.92 
30.67 
32.08 
36.42 
31.50 
30.17 
29.08 
31.22 
29.50 
29.20 
34.67 
28.34 
35.15 
28.83 
30.07 
31.67 
31.50 
29.67 
24.00 
30.55 
28.67 
28.83 
29.20 
32.53 
22.27 
21.60 
20.27 
34.70 
25.80 
24.20 
26.50 
26.60 
28.40 
22.50 
24.90 
26.20 
22.00 
23.50 
22.70 
22.70 
25.20 
21.80 
21.10 
21.00 
21.00 
19.20 
19.07 
20.00 
16.10 
24.70 
20.80 
23.20 
19.20 
22.00 
18.01 
19.70 
15.70 
19.50 
38.20 
35.20 
30.80 
33.30 
29.20 
32.50 
28.70 
23.30 
26.30 
32.30 
23.70 
29.10 
29. 50 
28.20 
27.80 
28.20 
21.50 
21.00 
31.30 
25.30 
23.70 
31.00 
24.70 
22.20 
22.30 
22.50 
21.00 
23.30 
31.20 
24.70 
24.50 
33.97 
30.45 
29.84 
29.42 
28.00 
27.97 
27.97 
27.80 
27.45 
27.42 
27.14 
27.05 
27.05 
26.97 
26.49 
25.71 
25. 54 
24.71 
24.34 
24.31 
24.27 
24.19 
24.05 
24.01 
23.57 
23.06 
22.22 
22.13 
21.29 
20.67 
19.52 
i Used as the check; the figures given are the average of the yields from several plats. 
TESTS AT NEPHI, UTAH. 
Stoner (Miracle) wheat was tested at Nephi, Utah, in 1911, by the 
United States Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the 
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, in one-twentieth acre plats, 
in comparison with several other varieties. The results are shown 
in Table VII. In this test of seven varieties, this wheat ranked 
sixth in yield, producing 26.7 bushels, or 11.4 bushels less than the 
best yielding variety. 
