. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 228. Machine foi separating watermelon seed. apart. For cucumbers, tomatoes and watermelons, it will be found best to set the rollers as close as possible without injuring the seeds; but as open as possible and still turn, for summer squash and muskmelons. The frame is made of 4x4, and may be of pine. Fig. 228 illustrates the machine in action. In Fig. 229 is pictured a table on which cucumbers may be seeded. (3) Growing and breeding seed crops for hom
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 228. Machine foi separating watermelon seed. apart. For cucumbers, tomatoes and watermelons, it will be found best to set the rollers as close as possible without injuring the seeds; but as open as possible and still turn, for summer squash and muskmelons. The frame is made of 4x4, and may be of pine. Fig. 228 illustrates the machine in action. In Fig. 229 is pictured a table on which cucumbers may be seeded. (3) Growing and breeding seed crops for home use. It has been clearly demonstrated that it is pos- sible to increase the product per acre of the average farm up to 40 per cent simply by the use of im- proved strains of seed developed on the farm itself, at the cost of a little well-directed effort on the part of the farmer. There is no more effective way of increasing the money profit of the farm and the attractiveness of farming as an occupation, particularly to alert-minded young men, than through wise efforts in the improvement of the quality of the seed to be used. A most important factor controlling the profit of any crop is uniformity in the plants. With most crops, the profit would be greatly increased if each plant were only equal in quantity and quality of yield to that of the best one-third of them. Superlative individuals rarely add to the value of a crop, while markedly inferior ones always detract from it. The character and potentiality of every plant grown directly from seed seems to be fixed and inherent in the seed itself, and is made up of a balanced sum of potentialities and limitations inherited in different degrees from each of its ancestors for an indefinite number of generations. There is a difference in the degree to which plants have the power of transmitting their individual characteristics to their descendants, or in their prepotency, and we can be sure as to the potential character of the seed
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