. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . Gathering seed before it The difference between good seed and poor seed. Each pictureshows the yield from one acre in adjoining fields. Upper pic-ture, poor seed: yield, bushels; marketable, ; nub-bins, ; seed, none. Lower picture, good seed: yield, ; marketable, ; nubbins. ; seed, 79o. 16 AGRICULTURE strong vitality. Most of the poor stands which we discov-ered in the fields we have just been studying no doubtcame from seed that either failed to germinate, or elsethrew out plants so weak that they
. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . Gathering seed before it The difference between good seed and poor seed. Each pictureshows the yield from one acre in adjoining fields. Upper pic-ture, poor seed: yield, bushels; marketable, ; nub-bins, ; seed, none. Lower picture, good seed: yield, ; marketable, ; nubbins. ; seed, 79o. 16 AGRICULTURE strong vitality. Most of the poor stands which we discov-ered in the fields we have just been studying no doubtcame from seed that either failed to germinate, or elsethrew out plants so weak that they were unable to livethrough the cold damp weather of early spring. The loss from poor seed.—The loss from the plantingof poor seed is enormous. There are- more than one hun-dred million acres of corn planted every year in the UnitedStates. This requires some sixteen million bushels of of these sixteen million bushels, it has been estimatedby government experts that three million bushels fail togrow or produce barren stalks. Think of planting threemillion bushels of worth
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