. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 44 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE or by pulling the weed plants from a small plat of grow- ing grain, thereby getting a start in clean seed. Grading Seed Grain.—Many persons are satisfied when they get pure and clean seed grain; but, if one wishes to get the best results and maintain or improve grain from year to year, it is necessary to grade out and use for seed only the very best individual seeds in the whole amount grown on the farm. This may be cheaply done by grading the grain as shown on page 42. In this way the heavy plump, kernels are separated fro
. Elements of farm practice. Agriculture. 44 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE or by pulling the weed plants from a small plat of grow- ing grain, thereby getting a start in clean seed. Grading Seed Grain.—Many persons are satisfied when they get pure and clean seed grain; but, if one wishes to get the best results and maintain or improve grain from year to year, it is necessary to grade out and use for seed only the very best individual seeds in the whole amount grown on the farm. This may be cheaply done by grading the grain as shown on page 42. In this way the heavy plump, kernels are separated from the smaller, lighter ones. The former kernels should be used for seed and the latter sold or used for feed. Germination.—It is as important that seed grain ger- minates (starts to grow) well as that seed corn germinates well. It is a very sim- ple matter to test seed grain for germination, and this should always be done before it is planted. A good ger- minator is made as fol- lows : Partly fill a plate Figure 16.—A simple germinator for testing seed with Sawdust Or Saud, grain. The lower plate is partly filled with ^^,.<i« vinih a pln+Vi nnrl sand, the grain placed between the cloths on COVer Wltn a , aUQ top of the sand and all covered by an inverted qU this SCattcr One hun- plate. If kept moist and in a warm room, i i j ri 'il good seed will germinate in from 5 to 7 days, arecl SCeClS. I OVCr With another cloth, moisten and cover all with an inverted plate. See Figure 16. An- other simple germinator for grain and grass seed is made out of blotting paper. Place the seeds to germinate between two squares of the blotting paper. Good seed in such a germinator, kept moist and in a warm room, as a hving room or school house, for from five to seven days, will sprout. The number out of the one hundred that start to grow vig- orously in that length of time will represent the per cent of the seed that will be likely to grow in the field. It will pay to try this with
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