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Autumn Cleaning op Weedy Land. 



[Aug. 



For the present, therefore, the Ministry, although deprecating 

 the use of seriously scabbed tubers for seed purposes, feels that 

 the gain which would be derived by the Order would not justify 

 the additional expense. Purchasers are accordingly advised to 

 examine for themselves the seed supplied and reject all that is 

 4i:xtensively or seriously diseased. 



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One of the most urgent needs of modern argiculture is the 



provision of a system by which the value of new varieties and 



„ ^. ... ... . strains of farm plants may be ascertained 



National Institute , „ . ^ ^ ^^ , -\ ^^ 



of Agricultural ^'''^''''^ ^n^y^l distribution. 



Botan Yield "^^^^ National Institute of Agricultural 

 Trials Botany, organised witli the object of improv- 



ing the seed supply of the United Kingdom, 

 is now making arrangements to conduct a comprehensive 

 series of yield and " quality " trials of cereals (wheat, 

 oats and barley) to commence during the season 1921-22. The 

 trials will be carried out on a uniform and scientific system in 

 several parts of the country, and final reports, on which the 

 granting of certificates of merit will be based, will be issued 

 after the harvest of 19'24. The trials wdll be open to all who 

 can show that they have in their exclusive possession new^ or 

 improved varieties or strains of any of the above cereals, and 

 who undertake to refrain from placing them on the market 

 before the issue of the final report on their merits, except 

 with the consent of the Institute. 



The testing fee will be limited to the actual cost of the trial, 

 which will be determined at the time of the issue of the final 

 report. 



At the conclusion of the trials, the whole of the seed will be 

 returned to it.s owner unless the Institute shall consent to take 

 ■over the stock on terms to be mutually agreed. 



All those interested are requested to apply at an early date to 

 the Secretary. National Institute of Agricultural Botany, 

 Huntingdon Eoad. Cambridge, from whom full particulars may 



he obtained. 



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Farmers do not want weeds, but weeds will grow in spite of 

 him. and even on occasion unknown to him, with the result that 



. ^ . he may fail to recognise their presence until 



Autumn Cleaning . . „ . , „ri , i • • .1 



of Weed Land bloom. W hen this is the 



^ * case it is likely to he too late to deal with 



them without considerable expenditure of time and labour. 



