SELECTION OF SEEDS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 8

SELECTION OF SEEDS.

PLEA FOR A GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. _ The question of the formation of a Seed Association was traversed by the president of the AYellingion Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union (Mr. .1. G. AVilson) in His opening address at (he annual conference. The Government., he said, was making great efforts to import and grow various varieties of groin, and at the- Alarton Junction plots there were many valuable wheals grown, which were proved to he suitable to the locality and tho climate, but they were left at' that. A"6ry few formers knew about them, and still fewer were prepared to give them a trial.

If, said Air. AVilson, we had some association of members who would each take some grain thus grown, and sow it, so as to see how it develops, that would be a step in,advance. But, if farmers went further, as has been done in America, in' Canada, and more especially in Sweden where they have an experimental farm to grow tho parent grains, and another farm to grow the grain commercially, they might eventually very much increase the yield of the district, and benefit the individual farmers. If the association had a farm of its own, as they have at Svalof, the seed could bo grown there for the whole of the province, better and as cheap as the farmer himself could grow it. The farmer would thus be sure of clean, pure seed, a great step in advance. Air. AA'ilson said he had no doubt the farm could be run on a paying basis, and he offered the suggestion as being well worthy of consideration. /