16, you quote Pastor Russell as say
ing that one of the samples shown
him by Mr. Stoner’s agent had as
many as 120 stalks from one seed,
then in your comment on Miss Mob
ley’s letter, Nov. 30, you say one
grain produced 22 stalks. Will you
please tell us which of these quota
tions are correct?
1 note also that Nov. 16, you quote
Pastor Russell as saying that three
years ago the newspapers contained
extensive accounts of this miracle
wheat. And Nov. 30, you say that
according to Pastor Russell’s version
of it, the wheat was discovered 3
years ago. You say further that if
Stoner found it 3 years ago, it was
impossible for Bohnet to have sown
and reaped more than two crops.
Now permit me to ask, did Pastor
Russell say the wheat was discov
ered three years ago, or that the pa
pers contained accounts of it three
years ago? If the papers contained
accounts of it three years ago,
we note also that the U. S. Agricul
tural Department had made a report
on it; now if all this took place
three years ago, then it must have
been longer than that since it was
discovered; then surely Mr. Stoner’s
agent did not wait a whole year
after this, before he carried that|
sample to Pastor Russell’s study,
from which Mr. Bohnet got his start.
Don’t you think it possible that
Mr. Bohnet planted and reaped three
crops instead of only two, and if he
has raised three crops he could have
had quite a large pile of wheat even
if the yield was no ootter than mine?
Yours truly, W. J. WILLIAMS.
