Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-05-04
The LAWS of Grain Breeding.

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Col. Coleman thought that the subject
for discussion, the selection and preser-
walton of seeds, was one of as much
Importance as any that could be consid-
ered by the club. He knew that farmers
generally did not appreciate the impor-
lance of selecting only the best seeds
for sowing and planting. 1t was just as
important, if they wished to obtain good
crops, to select healthy, well developed,
perfect seeds, as it was to select good
breeding animals if they wish to obtain
the best specimens of animals of their
respective breeds. Stock breeders go to
great expense to procure the best ami
mails to breed from.
The will spend thousands of dollars,
and we might say thousands of guineas
in the old country for the best animal
that could be obtained in order to breed
from. Like begets like, he said, not
only in the animal but in the vegetable
world. Consequently, if we want to get
good seeds, good crops, paying crops,
healthy crops, they must have good
seed to obtain these crops from. He
was convinced that seed raised in the
best manner, having a proper soil, plen-
ty of room, plenty of air and light, start
with more vigor, produce themselves
earlier, with larger returns, than seeds
which have been crowded, and which
were imperfectly developed. s-asI
This law of reproduction, the farmer
should understand, is as rigid, as mex
orable in the vegetable world as in the
animal world. He had do donbti it would
pay any farmer who was growing any of
the grains, any of cerals, to lay off a GER
tain piece of ground for planting seed
for future sowing. Give them more,
air, more light, more soil to feed upon,
in order to make them healthy and
vigorous. ..fzra- .r-. rr.
Where that space could not be given,
another plan was to go into the fields,
and selecting. for instance, for wheat,
the largest earliest heads, cutting them
out withsa knife, or oats. in the, same
manner, or barley, or any other grain,
selecting the largest heads, the frstsma-
turing kernels, and earliest ripened
grain for future sowing. Persons had
told him, and written home, hat they
had taken the larger end, the butt end
OF an a of corn, and planted the seed
smaller end. They found that the corn
from the larger end will ripen three.
weeks earlier than that of the smaller
end. AS farmers were sowing their corn
now, he would like them to marke the
experiment.
There was another matter in the SCI
lection of wheat. The early wheat al
ways brings the bestprice, Consequently
the Alabama or Tennesse-wheat is
shipped heres and brings a good price,,
Wheat obtained from the South, and
sown in our latitude, would ripen sas
number of days earlier than wheat
raised in this latitude a series of years,
or wheat obtained from the North. He
Thought that wheat was an exception.
He had found by actual experience that
potatoes will not yield as big a crop from
seeds raised in this latitude. He did.
not think potatoes were as well adopted
to this latitude as a more northern one.
They would not have as good a crop
from native potatoes as if they sent to
the North for seed to plant 49, e
The speaker next referred to the
purifying and cleansing of seeds for
wheat, barley, oats and the like. He
said they should be run through a FAM
mill until every light, trash and imper-
feet, seed was removed. There was
another important. consideration in re-
gard to wheat that was that it should
be put through a pickle of blue stone
and salt and lime. 1t should be washed
in that in order to kill and destroy the
fungs and certain insects that affect the
seed. Farmers who had tried those
rules had reported that they had saved
their crops by doing SO, that they had
ripened them earlier and had destroyed
the fungus that frequently injured. the
wheat. -f. " =
How TO M1LK.-The Rural American
says: .rsi
1t is a fact that a poor mixer will
spoil almost any cow, and there are but
few people who are aware of the fact
that in the mere process of milking a
great difference is made in the yield of
a dairy COW. The ability to bring a COW
to her largest yield of milk varies
greatly with different mixers, as many
persons who consider themselves good
Owing to the fact that a large proper
ton of what a COW gives at a milking is
secreted during the process of milking,
it must naturally follow that unless the
| COW is in a quiet, contented state OF
mind, and satisfied with the mixer, the
usual secretion of new supplies during
the milking will not take place. 1t is
generally owing to this cause that COWS
oftentimes "hold up the milk as it is
termed, and this cannot be obyiated SO
long as the cow is in a restless state OF
mind and dissatisfied with her mixer
Owing to the intimate connection be.
tween the nervous and secretary sys-
tenn of the COW, it should be the aim Of
the mixer to gain her confidence and
good will. By this mere indifference in
handling and becoming thoroughly &C
quainted with them, many cows can be
made to increase their flow of milk al
least a quart a day,an this too without
any change of food. 1t makes a great
difference in the milking qualities of a
cow as to who mi1ks her, and how the
operation is performed, and in Judging
of the milking qualities of a cow, these
questions should always be taken into
consideration. as -a 'r ssH
An exchange says that, six years ago
a Scotch dairywoman did most of the
milking of a herd of nine cows She
was the best and quickest mixer that
we ever knew. The COWS gave an un:
usually large quantity, and continued
their milk later than usual. The ne1t
year, the same job was mainly done b.
less skillful hands, and the result de
monstrated that the loss was at least
ten, if not twenty, per cent. slsts .s
Some PERSONS cut asparagus into small
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