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between near neighbours, is of great value. Thus, a 

 farmer who does not take the trouble to select his seed- 

 .wheat from the best portion of his crop when growing, 

 ,and to separate and reserve it for future use, or who never 

 frees his seed from the presence of chess, cockles, or other 

 noxious weeds before sowing, finds a great advantage in 

 obtaining seed of the same variety from a neighbour who 

 has the reputation of growing good crops, and who has a 

 nice, plump, clean sample of seed grain for sale. In such 

 a case, the advantage gained is ascribed to change, when 

 in reality it is due to selection. But, on the other hand, 

 'varieties of grain, grasses, &c., have originated or become 

 common in one part of the country, and their introduction 

 to another portion of the same' or an adjoining country, 

 proves of signal advantage to the cultivator of the soil, for 

 a time at least. A farmer who takes an agricultural 

 journal, often reads in it an account of some new variety 

 of grain as yet unknown, except in some distant locality. 

 He sends for a small sample (perhaps a few bushels), sows 

 it, and soon discovers that it possesses some quality that 

 gives it superior advantages over the varieties that have 

 usually been grown in his neighbourhood. His neighbours 

 find out this fact, and then comes a rush to him with 

 * Please, let me have some seed of that new kind of wheat 

 you grew last year.' It is just here that we find the 

 benefit of change, which is the discarding of one variety 

 for the purpose of giving place to another and better 

 variety of the same article ; and it would only be fair that 

 the person who introduces and tests the qualities of any 

 new variety of cereal, should have a sort of patent right to 

 make something out of his enterprize and outlay, by charg- 

 ing a higher price for the seed he grows than the ordinary 

 price of the commonly grown sorts of the same article." 



