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ground of stated size. That one got 12 bushels from a half acre, or 
at the rate of 24 bushels to the acre. Part of the others tell what 
they think their wheat will yield. The rest tell what their 2 -pound 
and 4-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 4 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 for 
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 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1 
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. 
1 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 fig. 1916. 
