Seed Wheat. 



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it not be wise for the remaining three-fourtlis to give the most careful heed to this opinion 

 of their confreres, backed up as it is by their practice, as proved from an impartial 

 examination of their seed taken at the time it was being sown ? 



A great deal of our wheat is grown under conditions ordinarily called precarious. Our 

 seasons are less reliable than those of many parts of the world where wheat is grown. 

 Hence, on account of this uncertainty of our climate, the vicissitudes that probably confront 

 our wheat crop at the outset of any season, are exceptionally great. Now, we know 



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Fig. 22. To show the con- 

 dition in which the 

 great majority of New 

 South Wales wheat- 

 growers sow their seed. 

 It will be seen that 

 fully half this seed 

 belongs to the grades 

 shown by the experi- 

 ments described on 

 subsequent pages to be 

 decidedly inferior in 

 quality. 



that in tiding over the untoward circumstances of climate small and weak seed stand 

 a poorer chance than large plump seed, a much poorer chance than under favourable 

 climatic conditions. That is the great and special reason why in such a climate as ours 

 we should give particular attention to the quality of our seed. Under our conditions this 

 attention is likely to yield a maximum of profit. The same amount of attention to the 

 same point in a country where the climate is more uniform and reliable would not be 

 likely to be attended with an equal amount of profit. 



