Progressive farmers recognize that the kind and quality of seed they sow largely determine the value and quality of their crop. They have learned they cannot save money by" buying uncleaned or Superficially cleaned seed from I a neighbor or cheap seed from an unknown truck peddler with- ; out documented tests of its pur- | ity and germination. Experience has shown such "cheap seed" is really the most costly seed they can buy. Yet a large part of the seed grain used for sowing is only farm cleaned. Much of it is sown as it comes from the com bine or thresher, a practice that should be discouraged. Where the fields have been kept relatively free from weeds and the farmer maintains a seed in crease plot for each variety grown, so that the seed is kept pure and as free as possible from weeds and disease, the use of farm-cleaned seed grain for iarge acreages may be defended, but this advice does not apply to small - seeded legumes and grass seeds. It is out of the question for every farmer who wishes to sow' alfalfa, red clover. Ladino. clov er, hairy vetch, bromegrass, orchardgrass or any one of many other legumes and grasses to produce his own seed, or if he does produce it. *o obtain the high quality, disease - free and weed-free seed he desires for sowing. The seed industry has millions of dollars invested in regular and special seed cleaning machinery. I 11 1 — ■ —i n . ' ■ i"» ■■■■ .

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