Plant The Best Varieties

There is a wonderful difference in the different varieties of all farm crops. Some varieties of wheat have large, plump, solid grains, while others have email inferior grains. A bushei of some varieties of wheat will "overrnn" the alloted weight of sixty pounds to the bnshel two or three pounds and more, while others f all short the same nnmber of ponnds per bnshel. The same is trae of oats. If the most prolific varieties were nsed by every farmer, millions of bushels more wheat and oats would be grown. There is a great want among f armere in tuis regard. Again we look at the corn erop, and here we find still greater difference in varieties. Take the small ear, Pride of the North, which is only intended for extreme northern localities, where large ears will not mature, and we find thousands of farmers "monkeying" withthis small ear variety away south, when other varieties would produce twice as much. Take the Mastodon variety, a large yellow ear corn. It will grow about doublé as ïnuch as the little Pride of the North. The ears are nearly twice as large and the grains much larger and deeper. Other varieties of large ear sorts have the same advantages over the small ear kinds, but this is enough. Let us take potatoes, and here there is still a greater difference in varieties. Some kinds will not yield over one-fourth as much as others. Generally the potato is maltreated in growing to a greater extent than almost any other farm erop. Many varieties have "run out," and this by bad treatment. Few suppose a "run out" sort is used for seed alongside of a fresh, new, prolific, large, growing variety. Why, almost every one has seen two to four times the amount of yield from the last to that obtained froin the "run out" kinds. You cannot be too particular about rarieties. The clear profit of the erop depends upon the kind of seed used. "It is no use to talk." Everybody knows that the best seed must be used to get the best erop. Why then viólate this rule known in this universal, this unerring principie, in the vain hope of securing a good erop? It is trne that poor seed grown on good soil with best corn and culture inay produce as well as good seed on poor soil with poor corn and culture, and even this is a risk. But the only sensible course left is to plant the best seed of the best varieties on the best soil you have or can have, giving the best care in plowing, snbsoiling, planting and cultivation. This is the only snre road to success, says Western Plowman, after making the above recommendations.