The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-27

ferlor seed. 1t is only an occasional time
that different seed will bring good yield
l seen very small and refuse potatoes
planted from which were grown large
tubers, and an abundance of them, but il
small seed is planted season after season
the yield will become poor both in guam
tity and quality.
Now, during the gathering season is the
best time to save seed potatoes. As the
farmer handles the crop, he has the best
of opportunities TO see almost every
potato. and can readily select the most
perfect and place them 10 one side. IL is
good falling to save more than you think
1t likely YOU viii need, for if there is not
a demand for all your seed in the spring
you can eat them or sell them as well then
as now while on the other hand, il your
supply fails short through unlocked for
circumstances, it is not nearly always
easy to get the needed supply, even at eX-
hOrhitant PRICES.
When possible, a farmer gains by saw
ing his own clover and timothy seed
These seeds are most generally to be found
on the market, but the cost is high and it
is Very uncertain about their cleanliness.
l have seen fields thiczly set with obec-
tionable growth from seed that was
mixed with what should have been all
timothy or clover
Now, too. is the time to save seed corn,
unless it is the expectation to depend on
the seedsnen for the needed supply A
great many depend on their Cribbed corn
for seed, which means using from what is
left over in the spring, whether good or
poor, Last year there were a great many
through Northwest Missouri and South
west Iowa who planted corn from the
spring supply left in the cribs, and the
general resul I was a very poor stand and
universal re planting.
1t has been my practice for a number of
years to commence gathering corn for
seed as soon as ! found ii thoroughly
away from the milk. do not gather it
all at one time. but am always on the
watch for a fine ear when passing through
the field, and am never in too great a
hurry to stop and pluck it. When cut
ting and husking the corn am still on my
watch tower, so that by the time my crop
is crbbed | have a bountiful supply
stored away which | know to be of the
best
That the seed may be relied on as good,
without fail, find it essential to keep the
corn strictly dry during the winter, and
in order to do this | usually beg kitchen
nook OF my wife, where my corn not only
keeps dry but is not subjected to the cold
of the extreme wintry weather. | am of
the opinion though, that freezing dry
corn does not hurt the germ, but keeping
1t where 1t is warm 1t is more certain to
be dry all the time.
Garden seed cannot be gathered in a
happen and-by chance method and then
good returns justly expected from them
next year. | carefully gather the first
well formed ripe tomato and cucumbers
from two to three weeks earlier
than my neighbors, and of the
finest fruit ] have gathered the pods of
Lima beans, which matured first, and
stored them away securely with the seeds
of bunch and poled beans, radish. lettuce,
onions, etc, all of which was saved from
my best, so expect TO have of the best
next year. -....-. -.......
If good, large heads of cabbage and
caulihower are desired, the best of the
heads grown much each time be saved,
setting out the whole plant from which to
grow seed. 1t is almost no trouble TO
take precaution in this matter, and he
who does it is always amply paid in the
spring when planting time is upon us. 1t
is, of course, trouble TO put seed away
and protect it properly through the win
ter, but it is the truth there is no gain
without labor"