Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1914 — MIXING AND CHANGING SEED. [ARTICLE]

MIXING AND CHANGING SEED.

By Don C. Blair,

Agronomist,

Mixing varieties is a bad policy. It Is also a bad policy for farmers In the same neighborhood to sow different kinds of seed. It pays the graingrower to use one "pedigreed” variety of wheat, oats, barley, corn or other 'grain, and to keep It pure. Yields increase and improve in quality year after year, if the seed is carefully cleaned and gradeg each year; ani the variety establishes for the locality a reputation which is felt on the aw. ket, “Running out” is due to careless selection and poor tillage. Caro in these particulars will not only prevent it, but will, as said, improve the quality of the grain. Buying seed •very tew years, from regions having a different soil and climate, Is unwise, even if the variety is the same.