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ent soil from that it is to be sown upon. The sad experience of 
many farmers the past season, fully proves this importance: all 
who happened to sow the recently imported varieties, reaped the 
largest crops. No seed grain should be used more than two 
seasons upon the same quality of soil; the same practice should 
be observed with corn and roots. Always select the kind that 
matures the earliest, and put them in as soon as the land is dry 
enough in their several periods of sowing. To do so, the stub¬ 
ble should be plowed under soon after the harvest, thus turning 
under all the weeds before the seed is ripe, and thereby convert¬ 
ing them into manures instead of allowing them (as is too fre¬ 
quently the case,) to impoverish the land. The scattered grain 
will mostly vegetate and afford good pasturage after the wild 
grass is cut off by frost; then it is plowed best—if it is not 
unusually dry—and much forwards the work for the following 
spring, which, of late, have been very, backward and of short 
duration. 
Always select the heaviest seed, and free from all 
seeds of weeds; for the heavier the grain the better will be 
the product, the more will it stock out as it imbibes more mois¬ 
ture, and conveys it to the cotyledons and plumula, enabling 
it to come earlier to maturity.' 
That like produces like, is an unalterable law of nature, and 
in its application to plants, and animals, and man was the 
same yesterday, is the same to-day, will be the same forever. 
It admits of no exceptions ; all apparent exceptions can be ex¬ 
plained on scientific principles. Yet, farmers continue to 
discuss the simple question of the propriety of planting large, 
small, or medium size seed, in order to produce the desired 
result. But the application of the principle to animals is at 
once comprehended and adopted. 
Farmers do not expect to produce Shanghaes from Bantam 
chickens, Black Hawks from Shetland ponies, Short-horns from 
Devonshires, or South-downs from goats. The same law gov- 
erns in all cases, and the size, color and quality of progeny 
may be predominated by the parents. 
