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told him what I had done and the result. He 

 advised me to select from my own, as there was 

 no better to be obtained. I then selected a bushel 

 of the choicest kernels, which were sown in our 

 garden. After the plants were headed out, I 

 carefully culled out all plants not to my fancy. 

 I did this at least a dozen times. The product 

 of this plot, I recleaned and sowed on summer- 

 tilled soil and again the culling process was re- 

 sorted to. I can assure you I felt a thrill of joy 

 as I rode the binder while cutting this field, the 

 straw had just a tinge of green and the grains 

 were quite firm. I had sown a bushel to the acre, 

 and the yield was thirty-seven bushels. 



"It became evident that I could not get a 

 machine to thresh my crop very early, so I hauled 

 several loads of sheaves to the barn, the remainder 

 was left in the stook or stack. It was the wheat 

 stored in the barn that won at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 

 weighing slightly over seventy-one pounds to 

 the bushel, which I understand is a world's 

 record. 



"The other wheat was threshed late, causing 

 a loss of several bushels per acre and of a somewhat 

 bleached sample, which, however, would not im- 

 pair its value for seed. 



"I am still further improving my wheat by 

 hand selection. While culling over the small 

 field above mentioned, I noticed some plants 

 showing a superiority over the others, the heads 

 were nearly square, filled from end to end with 

 large kernels. I spent three days selecting a sack 

 full of these heads which I threshed in a bag to 



