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Here are three such in- 



It will be observed that in the White 

 Lammas the small stuff had been com- 

 pletely removed. In the case of the 

 Steinwedel the small grains had been 

 removed, but the " White Heads " and 

 coarse dirt remained to make T6 per 

 cent, of the weight. In the grading 

 of the samples all such matters were 

 taken from -the various grades and 

 relegated to the tailings, and it is 

 necessary to keep this in mind in esti- 

 mating from the tables which samples 

 had been previously graded for seed 

 purposes 



I take it as unmistakable evidence 

 of grading for seed purposes when all 

 three percentages of the lower grades 

 in the table are very low, as, for 

 instance, in the following case : 



A Purple Straw that gave such low 

 percentages of tailings and of grades 

 2-00, 2-25, and 2'50, must have been 

 sifted in order to remove the small 

 seeds, and so make it better for seed 

 purposes. 



There are a good number of such 

 instances in the table. If the samples 

 of this type be selected from the table 

 it will be seen that their number is 

 about thirty. I think, however, that 

 about twenty other samples show that 

 something had been done to make them 

 better for seed purposes by the use of 

 the cleaning machine, thus making in 

 all some fifty instances in which there 

 is evidence of an effort on the part of 

 the farmer to improve his seed-wheat 

 by cleaning it or grading it, by which 

 is meant running it several times 

 through a cleaning machine or winnow- 

 ing machine;. 



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