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Should I receive seeds possessing qualities that induce me 
to use them, but with germinating power lower than the 
average, I increase the quantity per acre in proportion to the 
ascertained deficiency ; thus, if only 20 per cent, germinates in 
a seed which should give an average of 60 per cent., I would 
employ three pounds instead of one. 
I feel satisfied that, speaking generally, if the principles 
which I advocate and have practised are adopted, farmers will 
not encounter the disappointment which has been so universally 
experienced in laying down pastures, though the absence of 
annual plants will necessarily deprive the pastures of that 
verdant and vigorous growth in their first stages, so much 
desired by seed merchants, and so misleading to the public. 
In conclusion, I desire to add that it is far from my thoughts 
to imply that I have as yet learned all that I hope for on this very 
important and interesting subject ; but I am firmly convinced 
that in deciding never to sow for permanent grass any but the 
purest seeds obtainable of the best permanent grasses, I have 
taken an important step in the right direction. Could I have 
done this at the outset I should have gained an incalculable 
amount of valuable time, and saved myself from the fruitless, 
I may say mischievous, expenditure of no inconsiderable 
amount of money. 
X. Report on the Exhibition and Trials of String Binders at 
Derby. By J. Coleman, Riccall Hall, York, 
The determination of the Council of the Society to offer a Gold 
Medal for the best binder with material other than wire, whether 
attached to a reaper or separate, brought to the Show at Derby 
a large entry, and added not a little to the interest of that suc- 
cessful Meeting. Great credit is due to the Society for having, 
whilst fully recognising the merit of the American wire-binders, 
stimulated invention in a direction more practically useful to 
the English farmer ; it having been realised from the first that 
wire could not be employed with safety in this country. And 
it is a fact worthy of mention that the enterprise thus fostered 
and encouraged, with a view to our own requirments, has been 
to a large extent adopted in America, where the output of one 
firm alone has for one year exceeded 10,000 separate machines. 
Before entering into details, it is only bare justice to American 
inventors to state that the most successful String-binders were of 
American origin, and that they have so far proved very decidedly 
