New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-11-03
Cleaning and Grading Seed Grain.

(Notes furnished by the Farmers Institute.)
Selection of Seed: Most farmers
appreciate the value of good live
stock. They select their best animals
for breeding and market the others.
They know good animals will give
tn EN- better returns and more vigorous
offspring tEan will the weaker ones.
Few appreciate this same principle as
applied to the selection of seed grain,
and yet the principles are as applica-
BILE and necessary to good grain rails
ing as to good stock raising.
A bin of grain may be compared to
herd of cattle, and superior individ-
uals may be selected from the bin of
grain as we'll as from the herd of cat
tie. Individual kernels of grain vary
as much in ability to produce good
or poor offspring as do individual an
imals. The heavy, plump seeds were
produced in most cases upon the
strongest and most vigorous plants,
and the light, shrunken seeds from the
weaker and less vigorous plants.
That ''like produces like'' is a we'll
known axiom in animal breeding, and
the influence of heredity is as strong
in plant life as in animal life. I'm
provement can be affected only by
breeding from the strongest individ-
uals. Hence there is as much reason
for selecting good individual seeds of
grain as for selecting good individual
animals.
Yields from heavy and light weight
eeds: A COW in good condition will
give birth to stronger calf, and will
give more milk to nourish it, than
will COW in poor and weak condi-
ton. Correspondingly, a plump,
heavy kernel Of grain will produce a
stronger plant and nourish it better
than with shrunken, light kernel.
This fact has been demonstrated be-
You'd doubt by experiments testing the
yield from light and heavy weight
seeds. The following table shows the
yields of winter wheat obtained from
light and heavy wheat seeds at the
) Nebraska Experiment station:
Yield per acre in 1900, heavy, 29.5
bu.; yield per acre in 1901, heavy,
1913 bu. Average heavy years,
29.4 bu. Light, yield per acre in 1900,
$50 bu.; light, yield per acre in 1901,
% 7 l,,, Auor.ro 81 g bu CAIN l.,
favor OF heavy seed. 4.6 bu.
similar experiment at the Mime
sofa Experiment STATION with heavy
and light weight oats Bulletin No. 81
gave an increase of 81 bu. per acre in
favor of the heavy seed.
There are two principles by which
grain can be separated in ordinary
tanning mills, namely, by weight and
by size of kernel The average fan
ming mill will handle at this kind of
cleaning about 40 bushels per hour.
At this rate in eight hours two men
can clean 800 bushels. This will make
the cost something less than one cent
per bushel.
With 'sside shake' tanning mill,
one can separate by weight as the
grain falls thru the air blast, and by
size of kernel as the grain passes over
the screens. This is the better separ-
alton as it gives one the heaviest and
plumpest kernels. With an ''end
shake mill, the separation can be
made only by size of kernel. Either
method is much better than no separ-
alton or simply cleaning. BY taking
1919 to 500 of the best of the seed as
grown one can not only have the best
of his grain for seed, but can have it
almost absolutely free from weed
seeds. A. d. WILSON.
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