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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1917
Page
2
The piece notes voluntary military recruitment and public patriotism amid front line losses. It honors Honadph Smith a BC province minister of finance whose sudden death weakens the Brewster government. It ends with a call to plan a provincial spring clean up day.
The article explains testing seed vitality by germination in blotters and contrasts with soil-based tests done at home. It notes that laboratory germination is precise but impractical for many samples, while home testing uses 100 seeds in moist soil to observe plant emergence and vigor. It also urges cleaning grain with a fanning mill to improve seed quality.
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