SEED-TIME AfSD HARVEST. 
Products of Selected Seeds. 
The great importance of selecting the 
verv best, most perfectly developed, and 
thoroughly ripened seeds as parents for 
•rops which are again to be used for seed 
purposes, is not we fear, as critically prac¬ 
ticed by all growers of seeds as it should tie. 
We are certain that the good results from 
•uch practices faithfully followed are not 
purely imaginative hut that he who gives 
the public the product of such care will 
sairely be rewarded by an increased patron¬ 
age and the gardens and fields of those who 
plant his seed will be his loudest advertise¬ 
ment. 
We note the remarks of a Tennessee cor¬ 
respondent of one of our exchanges on this 
subject which accord so nearly with our 
Own ideas and practices that we quote: 
“The results of my experiments with at 
least 38 different varieties of wheat for 
years proves beyond a doubt that good, 
healthy, unadulterated seed, selected and 
saved as farmers select and save their seed 
corn, will not run out or deteriorate in the 
least, but grow better. To illustrate and 
prove this fact I desire to give the results 
of an experiment made this season. Last 
June I picked seven pounds of the best cen¬ 
tral heads of my wheat, and drilled it 
eleven inches apart in rows, at the rate of 
only forty pounds to the acre. It grew 
most luxuriantly and was entirely too thick 
for large heads. It attained a height of 6^ 
feet and much of it fell down. April 20th 
it commenced heading, was reaped June 
11th, and to-day it was threshed, making 
according to the report of a committee over 
67 bushels per acre.” 
Many such instancss might readily be giv¬ 
en. Does is never occur to the planter to ask 
him-elf why there is so much difference in 
the plants of corn in the same hill, all treat¬ 
ed : like? or why there i« such a differ nee 
ed of quicker growth and hardiness, but 
it does not seem necessary to do this. In¬ 
deed he believes the “running out” of th® 
wheats and other plants in a few years after 
their introduction is caused by the prema¬ 
ture gathering of the crop to avoid the 
waste of seed, and the promiscuous and 
careless use of good and bad grains for seed¬ 
ing. The plant from one heavy, well ma- 
tui ed. and selected grain would tiller and 
yield more at harvest, than five shrunken- 
half ripe kernels with their puny yellow 
stalks. So too of corn. It often rots in 
the ground, or comes up feeble and yellow, 
and the planter often says in explanations 
“that the weather was too cold; the ground 
’s too wet, too much manure in the hill,* - 
&c. On inquiry you will generally find in 
such ca»es that the real trouble can be laid 
to poorly ripened or badly selected seed* 
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in the size and vigor of a lot of seedlings 
of any plant when all are in the same bed 
or drill and under the same conditions? A 
•orrespondent says he can state many facts 
tending to show that by careful attention 
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