THE FUTURE GRAIN.
Says the True Republican, an Illinois (U.S.A.) paper: —Broom-corn, a semitropical, is likely at no distant day to revolutionise the breadstuff of the world. A process has been discovered by which the finest and most delicious flour can be made from the seed to the extent of one-half its weight, and leave the other half valuable food for making beef and milk. The average yield per acre is 300 bushels, and in many instances 500 bushels, or 30,000 pounds, have been secured. Nor does it exhaust the soil, as Indian corn, from the fact that it feeds from the deeper soil and assimilates its food from a cruder state. It belongs to the same genus as the sweet cane, commonly known as the sorghum, which, as an article of food, is growing rapidly in public esteem, and from the seed of which a most nutritious flour can be obtained.
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Patea Mail, 16 March 1882, Page 3
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152THE FUTURE GRAIN. Patea Mail, 16 March 1882, Page 3
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