Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — MAY GROW “RAINLESS WHEAT" [ARTICLE]

MAY GROW “RAINLESS WHEAT"

Or. Macdonald, South African Expert, Claims to Havs Made the New Discovery. London. —Dr. Macdonald of the South African department of agriculture declares that it Is now possible to grow a “rainless wheat” —that is to say, a crop upon walch no single drop of rain has fallen bo.'ween seed time and harvest. It does not maintain its existence without moisture, but all that is noceans/y is obtained from the deposit of a previous season In "moisture saving falHjws.” This would mean a freat boon for those areas where tlw rainfall is uncertain and irrigation, fir various reasons, impossible.