Sensible Talk About Wheat

Joaeph Harris, in hi " VValks and Talles," Bays : "IL I had tho timo I ovrM try 4o raise a superior vafiety of Ditlil wheat. Aii things cousi'lcrcd, it is, t'or this 86 and on dry, rioh, olean land, the bc.it Vrind of white wheat yet tricd. But it greatly in oharacter, Tn thütirst placv i: ?s alniüst Lrnpossible to get it pure, and even pure Dicl.1 selï, and in fnot the different kerneis in the sarao head, vni y greatly. The plan to adopt is to take a 7iumber of the rinest hcads of Diehl wheat that can be íound, and f'rom select tho bost kerneis - such kernels as arr exptrritíiret'ii miller wants, to miikc tho choicest iionr. Sow these kernels, and next vear i p vit the process, .sclpcting out the besl. a ui oontinuing the practice until the de.-ired quality is tully eatablished. I would myself i-o five dbUan a bvdMl this year for absolutely pure Dielil wheat, but my plan oontemplutcs far more than this. I waut it not only puro, but the best specimens of the breed. Hallnck's pedigree wheat has proved a failure, but tliis was duo to the tact that hc aimed at quantity rather than quality. V'luit -we want is not so much a wheat that is capabïe of producing a largo yield per acre. We ulreuify have varieties that are capaUe of produoing more wheat per acre than the available plant-food that the soil will support. In other words, so far as quautity is concerned, our varieties are botter than our soil. I-ijk no usi' getting a varioty capable of yicldiag 50 bushels per aere, and Bowing it on land not rich enough to gruw tweuty-iirc bushels. Our cliiuate ia botter than our farming. The person, therefore, wlio proposes to improvo a varioty of wheat bad botter aim at a superior quality rather than at groat producfivdiess. If he can secure the fonner, the 1,'itter will depend principally on the oodjtion of tho soil."