Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. 575 



Improvement of Seed. 

 It is not necessary for me to dwell on the importfince of raising- no 

 fonl stnff with wheat. I am no believer in the tnrning of wheat into 

 chess or anything else ; but I am a believer in clean land and entirely 

 clean and sound seed, and thorough cultivation ; and I believe that our 

 wheat crops might be greatly improved in quality and increased in. 

 quantity by careful selection of seed. Let a farmer first determine the 

 best variety for him to raise. At or before the time of thrashing, set 

 some sheav-es on a iloor, heads upward, and then draw out the most 

 perfect heads, those of the greatest length and the best filled, until 

 he has enough to sow an acre. Put this selected seed on land in the 

 best condition in every respect ; weed the wheat the next spring. 

 This acre should give him thirty or more bushels of seed for the next 

 year. Out of this again draw the best heads, and sow an acre; and 

 so go on for several years, the longer the better, and by-and-by he 

 will have some seed wheat to sell that he may be willing to have 

 bear his name, and he will be a public benefactor. 



Adjourned. 



November 30, 1869. : 



N. C. Ely, Esq., in the Chair; Mr. J. W. CnAMBEns, Secretary. 

 Kansas. 



A correspondent asks the Club their advice in relation to a location 

 to settle in. 



Dr. J. V. C. Smith. — I am a great admirer of Kansas, and am not 

 informed of any more desirable locality to recommend. 



The Chairman. — I have an excellent opinion of Kansas, especially 

 since the fair of the Institute, at which fully 100 varieties of apples 

 were shown from that State. They bore no mark of moth or cur- 

 culio, and were certainly the finest on exhibition. 



Mr. N". C. Meeker. — It must be remembered that Kansas fruits 

 are the first fruits of the soil, and consequently are better than they 

 will be by and by. When I was in. Kansas, not many weeks ago, I 

 tasted some of the fruit, and I found it in many instances spongy, 

 like a man overgrown. However it is an excellent State to go to, 

 provided one is sharp and smart. Those there now are of this cha- 

 racter, and the new ones who come in must be posted or they get the 

 v/orst of it. Further west even greater qualifications of this kind 



