Tale Of A Pin
William James Farrer was one of the first wheat breeders in the world to interest himself with the improvement of wheat from the point of view of everyone concerned—the farmer, miller, baker, exporter, and consumer. Farer, early in his life of wheat breeding, put the then wellknown hairpin to a strange use. For the forceps with which he pollenised the mother heads of his first crossbreds were made out of a woman’s hairpin.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 87, 18 January 1950, Page 5
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77Tale Of A Pin Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 87, 18 January 1950, Page 5
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