SAVING GRAIN FROM SEED.
A word with those (says a Southern gmper) who purpose reaping with the -stripping machine this year. It is a •defect in that reaper that it smashes ithe grain about good deal. It is no\ a good plan to save seed from the -stripper for seed purposes. The better way is to cut what is required by hand, or better still if a reaping or /binding machine is available, let it cut out what is necessary for seed, And have it threshed and baggod -specially for the purpose. Much can also be done ia selecting grain free ifrom mixture, and where much grain is saved for seed it is not likely to be hand picked or even gone over in •order to throw out bad and bruised seed; yet it happens not seldom either that great annoyance and loss arise from sowing seed tha-t h;id been injured, or in "which the seeds of weeds iiave got mixed up. The latter are sure to grdwj they always do. Hence the necessity fcr special care when reaping seed grain.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 57, 3 January 1883, Page 3
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181SAVING GRAIN FROM SEED. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 57, 3 January 1883, Page 3
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