this necessary. My way of dispersing 
damp vapors and over-heating is to admit 
fresh air each day. This must be done to 
preserve fruit, and should be done to pre- j 
serve health. Reflect and try this simple 
plan. 
Quincy, 111. 
Seeds, North or South? 
BY N. J. SHEPHERD. 
The experience of last year has convinced 
many farmers that in one particular crop, 
?tt least, it is not profitable to plant seed 
grown from a section farther south than 
where the crop is to be raised. 
Many farmers in the great corn-producing 
states found last spring that their corn 
would not do for seed; hence dealers ship¬ 
ped large quantities of corn from Kansas 
to plant. Although they had a late fall 
yet the larger part of their corn failed to 
mature; and the same farmers will again 
be forced to purchase their seed corn. The 
time between planting and frost in the 
fall was too short for this com to mature, 
and the consequence is a very serious loss 
to the farmers in those states. Those who 
have tried this corn that was raised south 
of them, where the climate is so different 
and the season for maturing so much 
longer, are convinced that it will not 
answer the purpose. 
My experience is that corn is not the 
only kind of seed that should not be pur¬ 
chased from the South; in fact, my plan is 
if possible to always try to secure seed of 
most varieties of crops from the North in 
preference to the South. Of course this is 
not always the case, but nearly so, not only 
so far as affects seeds but also affects fruits. 
The recent letters of I. F. Tillingliast’s, 
in several of the agricultural papers of the 
country, in reference to the country 
around Puget Sound as a seed raising sec¬ 
tion, shows that he is aware of this fact 
and is already in a condition to take ad¬ 
vantage of it. 
Often, by taking care to proieet at first, 
some kinds of seeds from the South can be 
acclimated beyond their lines in the North, 
as also seeds or plants from the extreme 
North cun be made to do well in the ex¬ 
treme South; but we are speaking row of 
the larger number of plants and seeds. My 
rule always has been that if I wanted to 
shorten the time in which I desire plants to 
mature I always get seed considerably 
north of me; while if a longer time is de¬ 
sired get them from the South. Of course 
in all cases this rule will not hold good, 
but in the great majority it will. Reliable 
seedsmen know this and therefore do not 
attempt to have all their vegetable or gar¬ 
den seeds raised at one place, knowing that 
such a plan would not give them the best 
results. But have some kinds grown at 
one part of the country and others at other 
parts. No one cares to purchase seed, pre¬ 
pare his land, and sow and then be at the’ 
expense of cultivating to find that the crop 
will not mature, hence some regard must* 
always be had to this point. Of course 
in many cases where the farmer is only 
seeking to raise a sufficiency of one variety 
of vegetable for his ow n use, this failure 
may not be very 7 serious,only disappointing, 
but where the crop is sow 7 n with the ex¬ 
pectation of marketing the larger portion, 
the loss is often a very serious one. And 
often the cultivator, instead of blaming 
himself for not knowing better, blames the 
seedsman who sold him the seeds, thus 
doing an innocent man injury for what he 
could not help. Of course some vegetables; 
or plants are'acclimated to a larger section 
of country than others, but there is also a 
difference in maturity 7 ; as corn in the 
North will mature in ninety clays, while 
in the South it t; k s twice that length of 
time, showing at once what a great differ¬ 
ence there is between the same plains- 
north and south. 
Eldon , Mo. 
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