. The Utah Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region. Let us pick out suitable breedersfrom among the wheat heads, just aswe would with animals or poultry. Just as the early heads are aboutripe, go through the field and pluck aquantity of select heads. Do not grabthe heads by the handful; but selecteach individual head on account of itsmerit. Do not hunt the extra thinplaces in the field but gather headsfrom the average places. This mayseem like a slow method of gettingseed wheat but yet a couple of thou-sand heads can be gathered in a rea-sonable time. A sack strapped over
. The Utah Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region. Let us pick out suitable breedersfrom among the wheat heads, just aswe would with animals or poultry. Just as the early heads are aboutripe, go through the field and pluck aquantity of select heads. Do not grabthe heads by the handful; but selecteach individual head on account of itsmerit. Do not hunt the extra thinplaces in the field but gather headsfrom the average places. This mayseem like a slow method of gettingseed wheat but yet a couple of thou-sand heads can be gathered in a rea-sonable time. A sack strapped over theshoulder, as if going to sow, can beused for carrying the selected headsvery conveniently. The heads thus gathered are thresh-ed by hand and planted in a little fieldor patch by themselves. The next the yields can be materially increasedand the quality much improved. Uniformity of ripening can be ac-complished to quite an extent. Wheat is subject to certain amountof inbreeding, but the effects of thatseem to be so distant that it is notworth taking into serious con
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