The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-26
SELL SEED
At $1,000
A BUSH[L
Oklahoma and Kansas Farm
ers Have Been Failing FQT'
SWIndIeI's Scheme

Manhattan. Kas., May 2tYou re.
member the 22s-bushelan-aCre-wheat
story af q year OF two ago. don't you2
Remember how some smooth persons
solU that seed ior Sl,200 a bushel
se much 4 pound9
Well. here's another. only worse,
aui farmers in Kansas, Oklahoma
.aRd Illinois are falling for it-- sorg.
ham seed at $500 a hushel The
rostofiiee department inspectors are
after 1.-THE swinde. not the seeli.
Arthar Il. Leidigh. assistant profes
son Of agronomy in the Kansas State
Agricultural college. this morning
said.
Watch ont for the man VINO sells
lNtle packets Of this sorghum seed
faoNsaHd seeds % a packet This
makes the retail price Sl.500 a bush
II Someone has been soliciting. for
feur months for persons TO take
state and cnuaty rights to sell this
seed al a dollar packet Every
man who buys county right mnst
buy one hundred packets OF seed and
Dgfee to self nine hundred more. He
Signs contract He obigates him
self To sell the thousand packets IL
dollar each
It's Worth s1.20 Bushei
Professor Leidigh has been CO..
operating witt @, II. Ball of the
tinted States department OF agrlcuI-
tire. who has charge Of the grain
sorghum investigations, In trying To
Discover the perpetrators Of the lat
est swindle Mr. Ball reported yes.
terday that he had found a company
in Oklahoma that is selling seed I'M
the manner described by the packet
As good grade of the seed sold by
ttis company can be bought for $l.z0
ID hnshel. the attractiyeness of the
graft can be estimated
The sorghum used by the promot.
era is called shaln II has been
sold, also. as california wheat,
Mexican wheat. Egyptian wheat
Ii has beer grown more on less
throughout the sorghum producing
area az the United states for several
Years, and in the Southern states
for longer period Where condi-
tons are favorable for It's growth the
crop has al FIRST aroused great eX-
pectatione However, when harvest
time arrives. ii n discovered thar the
heads, which have pmme-like an
reatance. are made np mostly or
chaf and CHIMES aud that the seeds
aie hardly as large or as plentiful as
those contained IN common kaffir.
The result is that while the field pro,
ddces large amounts OF headed grain,
It's faf az bulk Is concerned, II rare.
~ ever makes more than twothrds
as much threshed grain as kalt'ir
Sfailua purpose To Make Money
shalhl sorghum came originally
fsom india and IL practically the only
variety from that country grown To-
any extent in tAe United States. The
seen ii white ana somewhat flatter
tnan the seed OF kaifr The test
weight by the bnshe Is quite high,
sometimes reaching siyty-two pounds
q bushel The growth Of the plant
IN many ways resembles that Of the
,llrras. or Milo and Jerusalem corn,
shallu has been grown extensively
FOR fodder and hay but II Is usually
discarded after few years and eth
er snmac. orange or katfir grown inI
AIS stead AS grain crop il can
hardly be recommended as SUPERIOR
40 kaffir or milo, although It's seed IL
81 fairly good feeding quality The
real mission Of shalu Just now is toI
earn big money for Che promoters
Mr.. Leidlgh advises anyone who has
had dealings with the men TO give
Tie information over to the postotlice
authorities.