bees can fly, there is danger of crossing 
with other and inferior kinds. Of course 
any farmer or gardener who uses the same 
precautions can have similar results, but 
when the attempt is made to grow several 
varieties in one field, the distinctive char¬ 
acteristics of eacn variety cannot be main¬ 
tained. 
Climates have also much to do in the 
matter of seed saving. When seeds are 
grown in a climate unsuited to their best 
maturity, they will perpetuate a weak 
progeny. For example, the oat plant re¬ 
quires a cool, moist, climate for its perfect 
development; hence seed oats grown in a 
warm, dry climate are very inferior. In 
countries suited to the plant it is not diffi¬ 
cult to find seed that will weigh forty-five 
pounds and more per bushel. 
^ et these heavy seeds, if sown in the 
Middle States, will rapidly deteriorate. No 
matter how carefully crops may be man¬ 
aged, an annual shortage will be found 
both iti the quantity and quality. In cas*-s 
of this kind it is the best economy to pro¬ 
cure seeds from the best localities, for no 
efforts towards acclimation will prove of 
any value. 
Then the question of cost may be con¬ 
sidered. Those who make a business of 
growing seeds can do so much more advan¬ 
tageously in most cases than the amateur in 
this line. We know that there is often much 
complaint about bad seeds, but in most in 
stances these complaints have originated 
through bad management in sowing. The 
most common mistakes are those of cover- 
per acre, and cabbages simply mature and 
head to perfection, and then seed abun¬ 
dantly, and the seeds are unexcelled foir 
large size, fullness and vigor of plant. We 
imagine however, that as the seasons are 
long and the plants develop slowly, that a 
continual growing and planting of the same 
seed in that locality, will in time, tend to 
prouuce larger size and lateness of matu¬ 
rity of the progeny. For this reason we 
grow our seed crops there principally from 
seed which was grown in the East, and 
believe that growing and seeding it there 
greatly improves it for Eastern use in every 
way. We base this belief upon a wide ex:- 
experience, not on a simple theory.—Ei>. 
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Edited ey Frank S. Finn. 
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All communications Jor this department 
should be addressed to Frank S. Finn , Box 
50, Bryant's Pond, Maine. 
Answers to September Garnerings. 
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ing the seeds too deeply with soil and neg¬ 
ligence in firming the surface after the 
seeds are sown; rolling the surface after 
seeding is one of the most important points 
in seeding. 
Remarks: We clip the above from the 
U. S. Agri. Dept. Report, and endorse the 
writer’s ideas as sound and sensible. This 
explains why our Puget Sound Cabbage 
Seeds are really superior to much Eastern 
and inland grown stock. No country in the 
world is better adapted to the perfect de 
velopment of both oats and cabbage than 
the Puget Sound country. Hundred-acre 
fields of oats yield from sixty to one hund¬ 
red bushels of oats of the heaviest weight 
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No. 61. Nubierical Enigma. 
The answer, composed of 24 letters, is an old time 
proverb. 
The 13, 14. 15, 16, 24, 6, 11, 7 was an ancient country % 
The 19, 20, 17, 18 is to fly from. 
The 2, 3, 21, 22 is affinity. 
The 8, 9, 10, 1 is a notion. 
The 12. 8, 4 is an animal. 
The 5, 23 is a pronoun. 
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