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Show Grain Men Pine for Buckwheat Cakes Will Urge ITtnh Farmers to Add the Cereal to Other Grains Raised in State. Member, of the grain and Ho exchange made a departure from their retro 1., routine business yesterday and lntead r CUSilng current price. f who. hay, u,lked at 1-ng.h upon .'"J?! ftddini bucKwheat to the long UsV cereals already prodUCOd In this State. Several strong arguments In favor of mo t.y mluus niembers move we-re presented l ariuu good mini u- needed to Mag thj i grain i m . .otunty. th... as a treed twmln ter plant grows than Imekwhe ar ami oil. while th. r.- is rot a JW" ' XnV-for XnV-for buekwh-ai flour In I'lali and the Mirr ..un .1 lng country, some rO.OJO pounds of ! it Were i.,".IBh t- Salt Tjike during the past wlnl'i and yld nl goo.1 prices. Want Buckwheat Cakes. Among thos who spoke In favor JBtP2d"S inr the growing of buckwheat In I "lh lv7' was frank to say that it is lP0lbl Jj ..lilaln g.io.1 huck-Aheat Hour from tho n. least thnt which is hipped h"o is anytblns but the goo.,1. old-faahloaed Wad ol winch th. ruk-, were made when they were bo s. nn.l aeveral Of th'-m expressed a desire lo na-.e toma genuine bUCkWbeat cakos once more-, .ludging tr -m their expeerlences in trying to obtain genuine buckwheat during the past I' a vears. they have reached the eMielualon. tney said, that the only way to get the real turT Is to raise It here. Urge Farmers to Plant. It will b teO lato thin ysar to plant the buckwheat, but gruln merchants are anxious I., er. nt.i -.urTh r.rei ( In ll b next x '.ir to runs th. farmers tn plant a few hundreM acres at lea-st. on trial. Buckwheat average! nearly thirty bushels to th" acre nnd weighs from 45 to 4 pounds to the bushel, oranllng that ns much Hour enn b- mad,- fr-m ie n-be I of buckwheat as from n bliahel of when It i mean ?0 pounds of flour to tho acre, Will Work Cereal In. Some of the members of the exchange present pres-ent wero opposed to Introducing buckwheat, arguing that whvnt Is tho very best thing tbrtl the raimcrn rjjt produce, that Is. It brlrms the best proms. Othara used thu argument Uiat thre or.- no mills 'n t'tah whero th-j bue-k-v heat could bo ground !nlo Hour. This was not considered a serious objection, however, as It wsa pointed on t that If th--r-' was a do-mand do-mand the millers would soon put in the neo,-s--uiy machinery And from remnrks tneolu utter the close of thi meeting by somo of the more enthualastlo supporters of the plan It was learned that their etforta to Interact tho farmers will not oesce until they h.i'o euc-ceeded euc-ceeded irj getting them to consent to try the cereal. . . . |