Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — "Bread" and "Plareon" Seed. [ARTICLE]

"Bread" and "Plareon" Seed.

Schoc* children in the crowded parts of New York do not speak of corn and oats and wheat by those names, but always refer to them as “seeds.” The other day in one ol the big schools the teacher was talking to her pupils about gardening. She ended with a request for each pupil to bring a few seeds the next day to be planted In the window boxes. The following morning the children appeared mostly with either oats, wheat or corn. While putting a few grains of each in the earth the teacher- referred to them by their familiar names. One of the girls in the class took courage to “set the. teacher right” and said: “Some one must ’a told you wrong, teacher. That” —pointing to the wheat—“is bread seed, an’ that yellow stuff ain’t corn; it’s pigeon seed. We always call them that in the block where we live.”