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sale of screenings or seeds containing weeds in quantity, 

 it encourages the exportation of such seed from Canada. 



"As a result of the effort in Canada and Europe to 

 obtain good seeds in the United States, where we are, 

 is not considered as carefully as it should, and where 

 there are no restrictions on the sale of poor seeds it 

 becomes a ready market for low grade seed." 



There is but one remedy. Our American farmer 

 must begin threshing his own seed instead of accept- 

 ing the dumpings of other countries. This can be done 

 without financial loss. On the contrary, it is very 

 profitable, as the following letters will show : 



"Roswell, Idaho, August 30, 1906. 



"I, Chas. E. Paine, being first duly sworn, hereby 

 affirm that I am the person who assisted E. H. Brum- 

 bach on August 27, 1906, in measuring the entire field 

 on the ranch of Sylvester Hill in Roswell, Idaho, from 

 which Mr. Brumbach. was threshing and found it to 

 contain fifteen and two thirds acres by actual meas- 

 urement. 



"(Signed) Chas. E. Paine. 



"Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day 

 of August, 1906. 



"(Seal) J. E. Kerick, Notary Public." 



"Now to make this record still more interesting, 

 a few figures will show the financial end of the propo- 

 sition: Twelve thousand three hundred and forty-one 

 pounds of seed at 12 cents a pound, which said seed 

 would be worth, makes $1,480.92, and add to this the 

 value of 66 1-2 tons of straw or chaff, which is worth 

 not far from $250 in actual feeding value, makes 

 $1,730.92 as the total returns from 15 2-3 acres of 



clover. For the actual outlay of time and labor it is 

 doubtful if this result has been equaled in this good 

 year of 1906 in any other instance." 



The machinery used was a huller manufactured by 

 the M. Rumely Company of La Porte, Ind., to whom 

 the owner of the seed addressed the following letter: 



"I congratulate you on the success of your new 

 huller, sold to Ezra H. Brumbach, Roswell, Idaho. He 

 threshed my 15 2-3 acres of clover in 23 hours actual 

 running time, and could not overtax the separating ca- 

 pacity, although the growth of clover was enormous, as 

 compared with clover grown in the East. Much of it 

 was five feet in length and it was crowded in as fast 

 as the feeder would take it. There was absolutely no 

 waste of seed at the machine. I paid Mr. Brumbach 

 $12.50 per acre for hulling my seed and am satisfied." 



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