Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1918 — Plant Called “Quinoa” May Prove Substitute for Wheat [ARTICLE]

Plant Called “Quinoa” May Prove Substitute for Wheat

There has long been cultivated on the west coast of South America a plant called "quinoa,” which botanists and cereal experts believe may prove an excellent substitute for wheat, in fact preferable to the substitutes now in use, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. This plant, now attracting particular attention because of the shortage of foodstuffs, has been cultivated in South America, in more or less primitive fashion, since pre-Inca days. The department of agriculture has imported several lots of quinoa seed and seed of related species and is making experiments with it in the hope of finding a suitable soil and efimate in this country for fte cultivation.