SEED-TIME AH© HARVEST. 
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To preserve seeds is of the most impor¬ 
tance of all, for it depends upon the man¬ 
ner of ket ping stocks as to whether they 
prove more or less vital even for a few 
months, especially such as have less power 
of resistance in themselves. I need scarcely 
remind the reader ihatit is the decompos¬ 
ing elements in the surrounding air that 
destroy the vitality of seed, and conseqm nt- 
ly those that contain less oily matter, and 
have a porous shell or skin to the kernel, 
are the kinds that perish soonest. Either 
seedsmen do not seem to know this, or 
cannot reconcile themselves to (as it may 
.appear) a more convenient method of keep¬ 
ing stocks than the usual wooden drawers. 
These are, of all things, the worst unless 
lined with impervious material, for in due 
time these seed drawers become the haunts 
cf insects which drill them full of pinholes. 
Now. I am convinced it is out of the ques¬ 
tion for wholesale seedsmen to provide 
means for the perfect exclusion of the 
atmosphere, but it is not with th^se men 
that the seed becomes deteriorated, for two 
reasons—they are in larger and compressed 
quantities, and they dispose of them within 
a few short mouths, and generally clear 
out year by year. But it is with the small 
seedsmen where the seed grows old. These 
•men should either keep their stocks in im¬ 
pervious canisters, bags or bottles, and 
then what stocks are left over would be 
good for another season. Tin canisters, 
such as those used by grocers for tea and 
coffee, are excellent for such a purpose as 
the storing of seeds, more convenient than 
bags or bottles, and quite as handy as 
•drawers. These canisters should be made 
<of the best tin.— Seeder. 
Northern Grown Seeds. 
That well known agricultural writer “B. 
F. J.,” of Illinois, gives his observations on 
this subject to the Country Gentleman in the 
following language: “I do not think the 
value of northern grown seeds is fudy and 
justly appreciated. The truck patch men 
of the South I understand send north for 
fresh seeds every season; and this is not 
because there is any difficulty in growing 
seeds south, but because such seeds are 
found to deteriorate so as to be valueless im 
two or three vtars. An instance of the 
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superior value of Michigan grown potatoes, 
over those which have been raised here for 
a number of years occurs tome, which wai 
recently toM me by a reliable pain—taking 
English land-owner. He prides himself on 
his success with potatoes, and justly, for ho 
grows them w hen others have none. Some 
three years ago he plantt d four bushels of 
Peach bio w r 8, of which lie has kept the seed 
certainly six years. Just as he was finish¬ 
ing the planting of his plot of ground, he 
found he lacked one-half bushel of seed, 
and remembering he had loaned a neighbor 
that measure, be went for them. Instead 
of home grown seed, he got one-half bushel 
of Peach blows, grown in Northern Mich¬ 
igan, which had reached Chicago by vessel 
and Champaign by railroad. This halt- 
bushel he planted the same day as the other 
four bushels, gave them the same treatment, 
dug them the same day, and to his great 
surprise found the one-half bushel of north¬ 
ern potatoes had yielded almost as many a* 
the four bushels “native here and to the 
manner horn.” I suspect Mr. Gregory’s 
success with seeds, is quite a^ much due to 
his northern location, as to any other mer¬ 
it of his above the merit of other seedsmen.” 
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