Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — Will Wheat Turn to Cheat? [ARTICLE]

Will Wheat Turn to Cheat?

Some who read this headline will say “yes” and swear to it, while others, equally as well acquainted with the mysterious in agricultural lore, will declare that “like produces like” and that one species of grain never sprung from another. There is but one instance on record in all the annals of agriculture where a spike of cheat has been found in a bed of, wheat. This curiosity is, or was quite recently at least, preserved in the agricultural nauseum.in Springfield,lll.