HOW TO GET GOOD CHOPS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1278, 27 August 1886, Page 3

HOW TO GET GOOD CHOPS.

From an American circular con taining directions for tlie treatment of wheat we extract the following : “A few words in regard to your seed wheat. You will often hear the farmers say they cannot raise wheat any longer,’ ‘the laud is played out,’ etc. Now this is not the case Your seed has played out ayd nothing else. Your lauds will produce wheat for hundreds of years, the same as it has done in England and France it you will take the same care of your seed wheat as of your seed corn. Sow the large plump berries, and.you will never complain of your land being played out for wheat-raising. Cradle your wheat and, throw aside all the small and imperfect berries. Sow the large plump ones and continue to do this every year and you will be surprised at the wonderful result. This grading can be done by running the wheat over a fanning mill a number of times, and the result will be, if you continue to do this every year, that your laud will produce five or ten beshels more to the acre, and you will always command the highest price in the market for your wheat, ‘ Like begets like.’ If you breed your pigs from the tail end of the litter you will get sunts, but you do not do that. You select the best of the litter for breeding, and in that way' you breed up. If you select tbo poorest you breed down, and the original stock is run out. It will be the same with jour corn and your wheat, or any 1 other produce of the farm. The same natural law that governs the animals governs the vegetable kingdom, and there is no disputing it. In regard to seed wheat, newly every year some slick talker will come round with some very fine-looking seed for silo at about ten times the price you could g t for that in your own bins, and in 99 cases in 100 not any better, if as good, they give it some newsfangled name and tell you it will produce 40 bushels

per acre, etc. You are tempted to buy a few bushels. You prepare the ground and sow in the beat possible manner. Perhaps you get a gpod crop and think you have ‘struck it rich.* Did you ever know it to pan out the same the second year or third year? Probably not. This highpriced seed you have purchased was graded up from some of the common varieties of wheat, and if you do the same thing you will be iu the market with some 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 cos you a little time. You will get a better resale the second than the first year, and still better the third. If you pub in this year 50 acres of wheat one day spent in grading your seed will be worth lOOclol. to you this year. The second and third years will be worth a good deal more. Of course there are seasons when wheat crops and corn crops are failures. You cannot control the weather. Frost may destroy your com, blight may take your wheat, but the more perfect the seed the more vigor will it give to the plant, and consequently make it better able to withstand the adverse seasons. 1 '