154 THE BUSINESS OF FARMING 



Our illustration in this volume entitled "Like 

 will not produce like," should send home the les- 

 son that to produce uniform seed we must have 

 soil of uniform fertility. No matter how good 

 your seed may be it cannot reproduce uniformity 

 where some seed is sown on worn soil and some 

 on good ground. Ever remember the truth ex- 

 emplified in the parable of the sower. 



The seed sown on the poor soil lacks in develop- 

 ment because it has been starved. The elements 

 that enter into good seed that make the seed the 

 best of its kind were not in the soil, and so the 

 plant was starved and its offspring was weak and 

 lacked in uniformity. 



To be able to judge uniformity the farmer must 

 familiarize himself with the size of the varieties 

 of good seed of the different crops he would grow. 

 Then if the seed he wishes to plant are not uni- 

 form or are radically different as to size, some ex- 

 ceedingly small or shrunken, and but few of them 

 measuring up to the fixed standard as to size, he 

 must know that these seeds are lacking in vitality ; 

 that some will germinate slower and make less 

 rapid growth, in fine, that the planting of this 

 kind of seed means nothing but financial loss be- 

 sides worry. 



Some one has said that seeds should be classed 

 as follows: "Poor, very poor, and almighty 

 poor," and many are to be classed entirely to 

 themselves under the appellation "mighty d n 

 poor." The "blend" furnished by too many 

 seedsmen come under the latter class. 



The author was severely "touched" by dishon- 

 est seedsmen before he learned the "seed game" 



