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ether seed when passing through the threshing machine. For the threshing of larger 

 quantities the machine should be cleaned out as thoroughly as possible before the 

 operation is begun and the tirst few bushels of seed that pass through should be 

 rejected. It is highly desirable to thresh the special plot after some totally distinct 

 grain, so that if any seeds remain in the machine and are carried over into the special 

 grain they may he easily seen and separated. Wheat, barley or oats could, for in- 

 stance, advantageously follow peas. The seed grain should be well cleaned in a fan- 

 ning mill, and as much of it as is to be used the next year for the special seed plot 

 should be hand picked during the following winter : an easy matter considering the 

 .small quantity required. 



The main portion of the seed may be used for the general farm crop of the next 

 year without any further preparation than that given by the fanning mill. 



In this way any farmer can keep his seed grain in excellent condition, and can 

 maintain its purity with the minimum of labour and with no danger of altering the 

 characteristics of the variety by errors in selection. This method will be found far 

 more satisfactory in the great majority of cases than the time-honoured custom of a 

 change of seed every few years, with its attendant dangers of new weeds and unsuit- 

 able types of grain. 



SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SEED GRArN". 



In order to meet the wishes of farmers who grow seed grain for sale (and who are 

 specially interested in obtaining samples of seed of the highest possible degree of 

 purity and of the very best strains, to serve as the foundation stock for their varieties) 

 a limited distribution of the newest and choicest strains has been commenced, from 

 the office of the Cerealist. The grain thus distributed is all produced by the most 

 careful and scientific methods of selection available, and may be depended upon to 

 exhibit a degree of purity practically unattainable when large quantities of different 

 varieties are dealt with. 



It should be distinctly understood that the quantity of this special seed on hand 

 in any season will necessarily be very small, and that the distribution is intended only 

 for farmers who are in the habit of growing seed grain for sale and who do not con- 

 sider it ' too much troubl.e ' to give particular care to seed of unusual value. 



MILLING AND BAKING TESTS. 



Tests of a number of varieties of wheat grown at the different Experimental 

 Farms, and of wheat stored under varying conditions, were carried on during the past 

 winter'. The publication of the full results of these experiments is reserved for some 

 future time, but a brief synopsis of some of the most important parts of the work is 

 here given. A complete explanation of the methods by which these tests are carried 

 on has already been given in Bulletins 57 and 60 of the Experimental Farm Series. 



VARIETIES OF SPRING AND WINTER WHEAT. 



Some of the most interesting varieties of ordinary spring wheat, durum wheat 

 and winter wheat are reported upon in the following table. All the samples were 

 grown in the year 1908. 



The total yield of flour cannot readily be determined, with sufficient accuracy for 

 publication, when a small experimental flour mill is used. The figures for break flour 

 are given, however, as they furnish a fair guide as to the relative hardness of the 

 different samples tested. 



