Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-10-13
FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
A SUBJECT OF WHICH LITTLE
IS KNOWN.
is BUCKWHEAT POISON =?

| That buckwheat flour is food having great
| heat producing qualities, and hence OF much
! value in the winter season, is well-known
fact but that it also contains poisonous pro.
/ perties is known only to the close observer and
| student.
In a recent number of the Ne,g England Far
mer a writer calls attention to the fact that
/ buckwheat is injurious as food. He says that
| the evil effects are best seen in those who are
| inclined 20 humorous affections of the blood.
He gives leaf from his own experience as fol-
lows: ''Some years ago | raised buckwheat
for grddle cakes to be used i'll the winter, and
as regularly suffered from a Lumor which APP
peared in various parts of the body. L have
the marks of those sores on my hands now.
As this humor soon passed of after the PUCK
wheat season, ] soon discovered the cause ana
the remedy and have neither raised nor eaten
this food since, or had this affilctlon since.
This correspondent also gives the experience OF
others which was to the same effect.
1t is not generally denied that the itch
and other cutaneous affections of the blood
have been the direct results of eating buck
wheat, though at the same time it is not known
that the shuck or outer black shell is really the
portion of the berry containing the deleterious
substance. A powder made Of Buckwheat
hulls Is used a poison. Though this may
seem an exaggeration of the case it is notwith-
standing an undsputed fact.
Examination and experience also prove that
DuckWheaI SnucES are not OnGV poisonous Uut
devoid of any nutrtive qualities, and III this
respect similar to the barr of a chestnut.
Heretofore under the old system of milling,
buckwheat was ground with the hull, and as
the hull will pulyerize TO q great extent with
the heart of the kernel, and consequently bolt
into the flour, the flour was dark in color, tame
as to its life and worst of all, unwho!esome
food or Just such flour as gave the correspon-
dent of the Near Engldnd Farmer above referred
to such severe skin disease, and the same
that distributes so bountilHliy among its free
consumers the ever burning itch and SKIN erup-
tions of various attributes Of a1ornment and
various degrees Of pain. Recognizing this fact
enterprizing and intelligent minds put to work
to construct machinery that would remove the
shuek from the berry before the Buckwheat is
ground, thus leaving only pure buckwheat
meats which after being ground and passing
through the different processes Of separation
and manufacture, yields pure, white, lively
flour and a clear yellowish bran-all free from
the injurious shucks. For those who are not
fully informed it might not be amiss to state
that there is still found ON buckwheat after the
black hull is taken off, thin coating ola yell
lowish tinge which makes the bran ust spoken
of. In the manufacture of our New Process
Buckwheat Flour, this result is accomplished
to protection the large demand for orr flour
last year being testimony cogent enough hav-
ing increased our capacity many fold this year
and added many new and costly improvements,
we are prepared TO give farmers the benefit of
this new process, producing to the bushel three
to fivn pounds more flour and all of quality
never before attained, and bran that can be
classed as a feed fit for use. If any should
think the shucks worth using, we can furnish
free all they may wish and more to spare.
We propose to burn the shucks to get them out
of the way, and they positively good for
nothing else.
As there has been some dissatisfaction about
price of buckwheat, we advance our quotation
to sixty cents per bushel of 4S pounds. Fifty
pounds per bushel has been taken by many
who do not mention it, and to compete with
those we quoted price at 30 pounds. Farmers
however. fearing that this course might be det-
rimental to their interests in the future, we
willingly accede the reduction in weight to the
old standard, and caution all farmers to see
their buckwheat weighed. Our mill will be
completed in about one week when q further
notice will appear. Wheat and rye flour OF
unexcelled quality will be new feature.
GRAIN PRICES.
We wish to impress upon the minds of all
farmers that we make every advance that oc-
ours in the price of grain and are always buy
ing all kinds of grain, hence it will be to their
interests to bring their grain to US directly.
There are those who when they want few
loads of grain may pay our price but we can
assure all that from one market change to the
other we are paying the highest market price
every time, and for all quantities that may be
offered. We are happy to say that there are
many farmers who appreciate that we keep up
the market price for grain and we hope to see
the day when all may see that we are laboring
for our mutual interests.