The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-28
A Good-Seed Argument.

The frSt Item OF the season from
the wheat fields Of the northwest hav-
ing reference to the condition OF the
seeded crop is at hand. It covers an
investigation necessarily superficial. It
shows one thing, however, Of interest
the superior condition Of the heavy
seed. Much lightweight rusted seed
has been .sown. This is coming along
all right, and with fairly good weather
will yield we'll; but the best results
will no doubt be. found in localities
where heavy seed was used. AS little
of the wheat is above ground yet, even
that sown early in the southern coun-
ties, and considerable more wheat will
probably go in before the work ceases
for the season, no reports Of present
conditions can be at all conclusive;
but the fact that, in digging under for
investigation, the good heavy seed is
found in state Of termination more
advanced than the other, is interest
ing as confrmatory of doctrine
preached so extensively over the north
west earlier in the season by the good
seed advocates.
The gist Of the argument of the
university men who delivered the lee
lures to farmers, was that seed is
really, a young plant surrounded by
food; that, for the first fifteen days
after being put into the ground it has
not the power to draw subsistence from
the soil, but lives off the starchy mat
ter or food substance stored up around
it. AS this is plentiful or scarce, sc
will the food supply Of the young plant
during the preparatory period, be suf
| fcient or insufficient. In other words
a plump, full kernel carries the neces
sary food supply for the period, anc
a small, shrunken berry does not.
Investigation shows this to- be the
case today with the present crop.
- From this it is not to be supposed
that the smaller kernels will not pro
duce WELL Given good start ani
favorable conditions, yields from fields
sown with lightweight seed will be
satisfactory. But the object of the
good-seed agitation was to impress the
| farmer with the fact that the better
the seed the better the opportunity .fol
good start, and the better the chance
for the plant to stand against adver
sity later.
Lightweight seed may be used will
success, and in times like the present
season it is necessary to use it in many
counties. But the principle has beer
pretty we'll established that it is to thu
advantage Of the farmer to use thu
heaviest seed obtainable, not this yea.
particularly, but every year; for as :
farmer increases the weight of seet
used, so does he in that proportion
lessen the risk of failure and add t,
his insurance of good crop.
TIL Journal alluded yesterday Il
the prevailing type of wedding humor il
this country and suggested some amend
ments Of the program. The suggestion
it seems, was unnecessary, as steps ha,
already been taken locally to show tina
there is Wilderness in our Joking like tn
Wilderness Of the sea-. At another recen
wedding. after. playing Itohengrin o.
washboilers, the serenaders invaded tn
house where the guests were assemble
and piled the hallway and front stoop wit
scrapiron until one couldn't see out. TIL
preparation Of this joke SO exhilarate
4 the crowd that they would have gone o.
and murdered all the wedding party in
pure spirit Of fun, if the police had no
arrived and read the riot act It takes tw
kinds to run a world, those who can max
and those who can take joke.
i We can imagine that the opponents &
the measures before the legislature fo
/ the purpose Of abolishing private banlin
q in Minnesota may take a peculiar salts
faction in the Bigelow defalcatfon in Mil
waukee. Bigelow was a national ban