Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1908 — A Word for Buckwheat. [ARTICLE]

A Word for Buckwheat.

Monticello Herald: A Herald reader who was evidently given considerable attention to crops and soils says: “If the present wet weather continues much longer, fanners will have to turn their attention to quicker maturing crops, than corn such as millet, sorghum, buckwheat, cow-peas and turnips. Buckwheat is an easier crop on the land than oats, because the ground cai be prepared at a better time of the year, and there is no crop ground that will so effectually cleanse land of sorrel and other foul weeds and shrubbery. Then If it Is sown by the 20th of June It comes off In time and leaves the land in splendid condition for wheat, rse or grass crop to succeed it the same fall. The money-making ability of a buckwheat crop is also equal to that of oats, and the en-oneouß belief that many people have that It Is hard on the fertility and poisonous to the soil has been fully exploded.”