necessary to select the best of the crop for seed. In the case of oats or wheat they 

 should be thoroughly fanned and screened through a blower and only the largest, plumpest 

 seed used. 



LOSS FROM GRAIN SMUT 



H. T. Gussow, Dominion Botanist, from observations of two years based on personal 

 counts and calculation, estimates that the annual total loss due to smut in wheat, oats 

 and barley amounts to $17,000,000 or 6.2 per cent, of capital invested in these crops. 

 The loss in oats alone is roughly equal to the combined losses of wheat and barley. In 

 the United States it is estimated that the loss due to the smuts of wheat alone amount 

 to over $14,000,000, and when all the smuts and rusts are considered the losses amount 

 to hundreds of millions of dollars. 



MONEY IN ALSIKE 



R. S. Duncan, District Representative, Port Hope, Ont., writes: — "A young 

 farmer, by the name of Herman Peters, of Canton, who lives five miles north of 

 Port Hope, has threshed 86^ bushels of alsike, by weight, from approximately 7 acres. 

 This seed has been sold to a seed merchant in Toronto forl83^c.a lb., or $11.10 per bushel. 

 This is a total production of $960.15, or $139 per acre. This is almost a record in alsike 

 seed production." 



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