Cross-breeding Wheat.
j To hybridising and crossbreeding : we are indebted for some, if not all, of our choicest fruit — as apples, pears, grapes, and strawberries ; the finest flowers that adorn wardens, lawns, and • ay-windows — roses, camelias, azaleas, and rhododendrons; for our finest wheat, oats, rye, and grasses ; and for our most valuable vegetables. W T hy, then, should the farmer be left behind ? Why not cross and re-cross, and breed up his cereals, and bring out specimens that will make an exhibition for utility worthy of his calling ? He can do it if he will, aud ere long science will enter largely I into the operations of his work •*tock men (s'ockbree-lers), by crossing the finest specimens, make higher grades. They cross with the view to combining the largest number oi good qualities in one. So should we deal with our cereals especially. No farmer can estimate the loss he actually sustains by the use of poor kinds and of poor seed. He should never be content unless he has as good crops as anyone. — Exchange.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 97, 28 April 1883, Page 3
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