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Show "MUMMY" WHEAT SWINDLE Western Farmers Who Paid $5 a Pint Find They Bought a Common Variety. Kansas City, Mo. Numerous farmers farm-ers in Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas have been swindled by men svho last spring sold them small quantities quanti-ties of what they called "mummy" .vheat, taken from old Egyptian tombs ind said to be vastly superior in quality qual-ity and yield to the Turkey red wheat usually grown. The swindlers purported that there was only a small quantity of the wheat and they sold it for as much as $5 a pint. This quantity, they said, would produce enough the second year to seed a quarter section, which would yield from 50 to 75 bushels to the acre and would grade higher than the common com-mon hard wheat. Farmers who planted the wheat found that it was a common variety, not as good as the Turkey red, and did not yield any better. It is supposed ! the wheat had been stored in a dry I place for several years, which gave It the "mummy" appearance. |