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Show Flour Plant For Bad Lands. 1 From Delta comes a hope for those farmers whose and is so salty it will not grow ordinary grain, in the form of a plant known as Russian Flour plant called The heads are large, full, . "Proso" grain. well filled with seeds, which are easily hulled, and the seed is good for the making f flour, somewhat like ordinary or-dinary wheat. It is so used extensively by the Russians. The stalks are about four feet high, heads at the top in..-clusters. in..-clusters. 5 lbs. of seed Is said to yield 150 lbs. Further, Proso . can be planted in July and mature that season, as it is a quick plant. A Delta resident put this crop on ground which absolutely abso-lutely rfused to raise corn, so salty was it; it did well.' So he is convinced it is adaptable to salty conditions and would mean a great . thing for this type of land.. |