CHAPTEE XI 



SEEDS, SEED SELECTION AND SEED PLANTING 



TO insure success in the business of farming 

 there must not only be a combination of all 

 the elements that enter into the business, into the 

 harmonious whole, but each element must be per- 

 fect within itself. 



The most perfectly developed seed, a single ele- 

 ment of the business, will not reproduce itself in 

 kind if it is planted in a soil, another element of 

 the business, that has been shorn of its fertility. 



This truth was exemplified in the parable of the 

 sower uttered by the Christ to the multitudes by 

 the side of the Galilean sea. The sower went 

 forth to sow one kind of seed and that which fell 

 into the thin stony soil sprang up and for lack of 

 the deep soil that gives forth moisture and plant 

 food, either withered away and died or repro- 

 duced the inferior seed. The seed that fell 

 upon the fertile soil full of weed and thorn life, 

 was choked by their thrifty unchecked growth. 

 But the good seed that fell into good ground put 

 into proper condition and cared for by the careful 

 husbandman brought forth seed of its kind, even 

 to a hundredfold. 



We are thus taught that while seed selection is 

 a most important thing in the business of farm- 

 ing, yet when we have selected the good seed our 



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