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Show Changing Seed Wheat, Tho writer has found a vory pro-vnlont pro-vnlont bollof among farmers und millors that a change of seod wbeut from tlmo to time is rory doalrablo and that tho produotlro powor of tho wheat booomes much loss whon it is grown for n number of years in tho samo locality. During recent years a uumbor of Experiment Stations bavo testod this matter and it has invnrlably been found that seed wboat brought from a dletunco did not in nny nnso provo ns good as tho locally grown seed of tbo same vnrioty. Each furmor, or at least a number of farmers in each lodallty, should glvo considerable attention to tbo production produc-tion of their own coed. This bringing bring-ing of high priced sond from a dis-tanoo, dis-tanoo, however vu;vblo tbo sood may bo wboro It baa ben grown is moro thou likely to provo a disappointment, disappoint-ment, lu somo Instances farmers bavo obtaluod seed for arid forms from localities wbaro irrigation was practiced or whore tho rainfall was niuoh in excess of that in this region. Suah u practice hni boon disappoint-!3' disappoint-!3' ln-lla jrajuW.tiifcuaiid wlwat for tho arid farms' from an arid farm nnd be suro thnt it is olenn, truo to typo and possesses tbo characteristics you dosiro. Tbo. Dosoro'i Farmor ia in rnooipt of a box of oate, raisod on a dry farm at Nopbi. Those oats woro secured by Mr. Stophon Dos woll of Nopbi, from England, about Ave years ago und have boon seeded in tho full and grown ou dry land oncb year. This yonr. wo nro told, Mr. Doswell raisod moro than fivo hundred bushels, bush-els, nnd tho yield wns iu excess of fifty bushels per noro. Wo nro astonished aston-ished to find tbo oats sobonvy;iu fnct tbo quality of tho oats ia us good as anything wo bavo ovor seen grown on irrigated land iu this Stato. With such n yiold, oata nro undoubtedly moro profltnblo than wboat on dry land. Wo nro vory glud to note tbo auccoss achieved by Mr. iloswoll, in this ilroction, nnd wo tako plonsuro in calling tho attention of pooplo who bavo boou asking for n full variety of oata, und n variety that is adapted to dry farming, to this work of Mr. 13os well's. Mr. Iloswoll is foromnn of tho Stato Experiment Arid Fnrm nt Nephi, and tho Furmor can vouch fur his rolinbliity. i i |