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At harvest time the rod rows should be harvested separately, and care 

 should be taken to label them so that the seed will not be mixed ; the seed 

 from these rows should be threshed and weighed separately. (Fig. no.) 



The seed from the check rows should also be threshed in the same man- 

 ner, so that comparisons may again be made between the selected rows and 

 the checks. After the seed has all been weighed and comparisons have 

 been made, it is well to save the best fifteen selections out of the thirty and 

 to sow several rod rows of these the following year. At the end of this 

 time it will be possible to judge which are the better yielders, which have 







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Fig. hi. — View showing plan for sowing individual seeds of small grain when it is desir- 

 able to select individual plants 



the stiffest straw, and which possess other desirable characters. The seed 

 from the best selection can be increased very rapidly until the grower has 

 enough of the strain to sow in a general field. If there are several selec- 

 tions that seem to be equally good with respect to yield and other charac- 

 ters, it will be safe to mix the seed of these and continue them as an 

 improved strain . So long as the seed from these lots is carefully handled and 

 is not allowed to become mixed in a mechanical way, as mentioned earlier 

 in this discussion, it will remain pure and will continue to reproduce its 



