TREATMENT OF SEED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 December 1926, Page 5

TREATMENT OF SEED.

SUCCESS OF DIPPING. A 'lady reader writes to the editor of The Star ass follows: Seeds have germinated well this spring ,but nearly everyone seems to have had difficulty with the seedlings being eaten by birds, fly, etc. I have alwia.ys I>eeii au ontliu siastic gardenei. as far as a large family and household duties would allow, and, being -boin on the lands in the “old Dart/; I have acquired a lot of recipes suitable for a farmers' use and profit. Naturally, 1 miarried a farmer. But why is it. that a man will go on year after year making the same mistakes, putting the blame on anyone hut himsell, and 'absolutely ignoring any advice, for the correcting of them, from his wife?. Ho will come home quite enthusiastic about-. IVlr. Grubb’s successes, because he did so and so, and yet it is nothing more than his wife has advised him for years. When she quietly mentions it, he usually answers like a- spoilt boy: You never did.” However, this year, my good man took my advice 1 and dipped his seeds in turpentine or kerosene, which ever was handiest. Three plots of turnips sown at different times on separate farms are a huge success. “Best crops for years. I’ll never sow anythin"' again without treating them first ” "Yet it has taken 20 years of married bliss for father to absorb and put to practical use this simple recipe.