Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — HOW TO HAVE GLEAN SEED [ARTICLE]

HOW TO HAVE GLEAN SEED

The modern seed grader and fanning mill is an important machine on the farm and is without doubt one of the best investments a farmer can make. It will add to the value of every crop he plants, The modern seed grader and fanning mill in the first place removes all the impurities and foreign atter from the grain and in the second place separates the different grades of the grain itself, eliminating the small weazened kernels that would produce only stunted stalks and carefully Selecting the large, even, fully developed kernels that mean big yields of fine Quality. Planting only such seed not only assures a big yield of large, full-eareo grain next year, but it means with proper selection a constant grading up each crop—a still bigger, better yield each year of heavier, choicer grain. On the other hand each small undeveloped kernel planted not only means a poorer crop of poorer grain next year, but a constant grading down of your whole crop year after year. Still worse is the effect of weedseed that is contained in ungraded grain. There is no question about the evil effect on the tenacity of weeds. Unless carefully guarded against they will overrun any place. Large quantities of them are planted with all ungraded grain. Other large quantities are in the grain fed to animals and are spread over the fields in the manure. Unless the grain for both sowing and feeding is cleaned each succeeding year will show more and more weeds. —~ —— All grain as it comes from the shelling or threshing contains much dust, dirt and other foreign substances. Commission men and grain buyers will not pay full prices for such grain. They “dock” the farmer to allow for this. Then after cleaning if they sell his own screenings right back to the farmer at a good price. The buyer thus makes a double profit on his part of the transaction and the farmer loses both ways. The farmer who cleans his grain in his own fanning mill always gets top price for his grain and has his screenings for feeding purposes. With a high grade fanning mill and seed grader any grain or grass seed, wheat, corn, oats, clover, alfalfa etc. may be cleaned and graded quickly and easily. From a large hopper the seed or grain keeps running in a continual stream down over a series of screens over each of which a blast ofair is constantly passing and each of which in turn eliminates all dirt and undesirable seed till finally only the choicest kernels are left. —A good grader will easily clean and grade 60 bushels of grain per hour, and 40 bushels oi clover, alfalfa and such seed. If, however, the cleaning is simply for the market, that is, only the dirt and screenings are removed—the work may be done much faster.—National Stockman and Farmer.

Every farm and country home should have a medicine cabinet* sup plied with the standard remedies for Immediate use, such as witch hazel., peroxide, iodine, spirits of camphor, alcohol, carbolated vaseline, glycerine absorbent cotton, cotton bandages and such medicines as are likely to be required in an emergency. Keep the medicines In the cabinet and not scattered all over the house and have every bottle plainly labeled.