138 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I903. 



one plant be allowed to grow. As the two outer rows will have 

 had greater exposure to sunlight and air than the inner ones, 

 these plants should be cut off with shears and thrown away, just 

 before harvesting. At the time of harvest loo of what seem to 

 be the best plants should be selected and the spikes cut off with- 

 out any straw. These can be conveniently stored in a paper bag. 

 The remainder of the plot can be harvested and stored in another 

 paper bag in the same way. The seeds from these selected best 

 heads should be sown the following season in another seed bed 

 bv themselves. The seeds from the about 900 plants which are 

 harvested by themselves can, after being hand shelled, be picked 

 over and 1000 seeds selected, planted and treated in the same way 

 as in the preceding season. 



While this seems laborious and a slow process, in the course 

 of three or four years there will have been obtained several lots 

 of seeds, sufficient to sow 1-20 of an acre each, which will give 

 a sufficient crop to make a milling test of the wheat. 



