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yielded in a similar test about 7 bushels per acre. In 1914 at this 
place on a plat containing 1/112 of an acre it yielded at the rate of 
18.9 bushels per acre, while Fife and bluestem wheats yielded at the 
rate of 8.3 and 9.5 bushels per acre, respectively, in similar tests. 
At Chico, Cal., in 1912, out of 57 selections tested, Alaska wheat 
ranked forty-third. 
In the Judith Basin, Mont., Alaska wheat was sown in the fall of 
1908, but winterkilled. 
These results, meager as they are, indicate that Alaska wheat is not 
a valuable wheat in respect to yield in many parts of the central and 
western United States. 
Alaska wheat has been tested for several years in short rows at 
the Arlington Farm, at Eosslyn, Ya., and has done very poorly there. 
It has never yielded much more than the seed sown and has usually 
yielded less than this quantity. It is clearly not a valuable wheat for 
the eastern part of the United States. 
Alaska wheat has usually proved a total failure or has given poor 
results when it has been tried in a small way at the various stations 
of the United States Department of Agriculture. This and its known 
inferiority as a milling wheat are responsible for its not being sown 
in the plats along with other varieties that are being tested. Usually 
only the better wheats are included in such tests. 
This wheat, either under its present name of Alaska or under some 
of its earlier names, has doubtless been tried on many types of soil in 
many parts of the United States in the course of the last century. 
That it has never become established indicates apparently that it is 
not a valuable variety under any of the conditions where it has been 
grown. It has remained for promoters to resurrect it time and again 
and, aided by its striking and unusual appearance, to sell it to the 
unwary at exorbitant prices. Agricultural literature abounds in 
instances of this deception. 
MILLING TESTS OF ALASKA WHEAT. 
Regarding the tests made at the Idaho station, 1 it may be said that 
milling and baking tests were made of wheat "secured at the ware- 
house in Juliaetta from the spring and winter Alaska wheat stored 
there " and of a good grade of Little Club wheat. Without going into 
details regarding these tests, the following quotation indicates what 
results were secured: 
The results uniformly bear out the laboratory experience that there is very 
little difference in the baking qualities of flour obtained from the Little Club 
wheat and that obtained from the Alaska wheat. The Little Club is a soft 
wheat grown extensively in this part of the State, both as a spring and winter 
1 Data from the following : French, H. T.. and Jones. J. S. Alaska wheat investigation. 
Idaho Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 65, 12 p. 1908. 
