Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1903 — No Such Grain as “Corn Wheats" [ARTICLE]

No Such Grain as “Corn Wheats"

The Department of Agriculture reports that thousands of letters are being reoeived at the department from farmers in various parts of the country asking about a new grain called “corn-wheat,” that some bogus seed firm is exploiting. The department advises the farmers that there is no such grain as oorn wheat, and it is probable that no hybrid of corn and wheat could ever be produced, or at any rate none that would be fertile. The grain that has caused the agitation is properly called Polish wheat and has some value ‘as • food for hogs. ” ~ -