The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1861-06-27

Tess urgently required IN the formation
and production of the seed d-berry, the most
essential part of the product. To procure
seed from mucEy soils with ample lime,
to plant on soils deficient in this alkali,
can not result In any benefit, therefore,
as | view it. For the seed so transferred
comes into less instead of more favorable
conditions,-has more of the less import
ant silica to perfect its stra,c, but less and
not enough usually, of the more accessory
line, magnesia, and cognates, to perfect
its more vital and valuable seed.
Some of the conclusions | arrive at may
be roughly stated as follows Our strong
ioams-white oak lands being their type
are the most complete wheat soils. sap
plying all the necessary conditions for
perfect product, which will tend to re-
produce itself if not checked by adverse
conditions. But comparatively defect
i've soil, either as to lime, sand, the phos-
pilates, or otherwise, would check this
tendency. A change from such soil
to loamy or mucKy land could be no ad-
vantage, but the contrary therefore,
change of seed from rich prairie to light
loan soil can secure no good result, be-
cause the more important lime is not pres
ent, however silica may abound.
On the other hand, if there be an i'm
portant improvement of conditions to the
seed, in the change of soH,-as for iu-
stance, from sandy loan, deficient in
lime, to black limestone prairie,-the less
vital SILICA Of the former will be greatly
overbalanced by the advantage of sufi-
cient lime, and its compounds, for the
production of prime seed heads.
A change of soil, from either light veg,
etable mold or thin sandy soil to strong
loam-not the contrary-is good change,
because the seed goes from comparatively
defective to more generally complete con.
ditions of full growth and maturity, either
as to straw or berry. Usually there can,
| believe, be no advantage--and have
seen these conclusions practically tested
in various instances-in changing from
soil rich in lime to one defective as to
this ingredient. But the opposite of this,
as | have often seen, is a good change.
From lighter tc stronger soils of the same
general compositlon-not the contrary
is a good change. Generally, a transfer
of seed from sandy to mucky soils not
the contrary-is productive of decided
benefit to the product. On the best
strong loan wheat soils, the tendency to
improve is itself checked, in some in
stances probably because the best condi-
tions and most perfect product have been
nearly attained, or from long uniformi-
ty of conditions causing the habits of the
plant to become comparatively fixed "
and difficult to change in any direction
in which cases, and others that [ have
not space to particularize, seed from any
lighter and less complete soil-the re-
verse being impracticable-can usually
be used with considerable advantage and
an important general rule, in procuring
seed for the sake If improvement, will be
seen to be, to transfer to soils that are
less defective, in lime or otherwise: in
brief, to change to more complete condi-
tions of growth and perfection, when i'm
provement may, from the law of like
cause like consequence, be reasonably an
tcipated Il GeneSee Farmer.