HOW TO GET GOOD CROPS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1305, 3 August 1886, Page 3

HOW TO GET GOOD CROPS.

.prom an American circular wvwi w**taining directions for the treatment of wheat to prevent and kill smut and vain - able BUggts'iona regarding selections of seed, we extract the following : * Now a few words In regard to your seed wheats You will often hear the farmers say they “ cannot raise wheat any longer,” “ the land is played oat," etc. Now this is not the case. Your seed has played out and no hng else. Your lands will produce wheat for hundreds of years, the same as it has done in England and France, if you will take the same care of your seed wheat as of your seed corn. Sow the large, plcmp berries, and you will never complain of your land being played out for wheat raising, tirade ycur wheat and threw rs’do all the small And imperfect berrle°. Sow the large, plump ones, and continue to do this every year, and you will be astonished at the result. This grad : ng can be done by running the wheat over a fanning mill a number of times,and the rcsultwiil ba if you continue to do this erery year, that your lard will 1 produce five or ten bushels m re to the i acre, and you will always command the ; highett price in the market for your wheat. ■ ‘ Like begets like.’ If you breed yur [ pigs from the tail end of the litter you will r get runts, but you do not like that. Yon ! select the best of the litter for breeding, * and in that way you breed up. If you

select the poorest you breed down, and your ori c ioal stock is run out. It will be the'same with your c?rn and your wheat, or any other produce of tho farm The same natural law that governs the animals governs the vegel*b’e k’ngdom, and thora ia no disputing it. In regard to seed wheat, nearly every year some slick tr'ker will come round with acme very fine look Ing seed for aalo at about ten times the

price you emld gel for that in your own bins, and, it nine'y-oine cases in a bun died, not any better, if as good. They give it some new fangled name aod tell you ic will produ e forty bushels per »cre, &c. It is an old story. You have bi rd and read it eften. Y< u ere tempted to buy a few bushels You prepare the ground and sow In the best potsible manner s end, peihaps, get a good u?op and think yon have “struck it rich," Did you ever know it to pan out the same the second

or third year ? Probably not. This highpresd seed you have purchased was graded up from some of the common varieties of wheat, and if you will do the same thing—grade your wheat—you will, if you wish, be in the market with some of this new variety of seed wheat, and the occupation of those slick fellows will be gone. Try this method of grading your seed wheat for a few years. It will only cost you a little time. Yon will get a better result the second than the first year, and still better the th’rd year. If you put in this year fi.’ty teres of wheat, one day epe*t in grading your seed (and that will do It) will be worth one hundred dollars to yon this year. The second and third years it will be worth a good deal more. Of course there are seasons when wheat crops and com crops are failures. You cannot control the weather, Froit may destroy your corn, blight may take your wheat, but the more perfect the seed the more vigor will it give to the plant, and consequently make it bettei able to withstand adverse seasons,