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Seeds and Seed Producers and Oxeye Daisy Notes
The article discusses seed saving versus specialized seed production and its role in crop improvement with wax beans as an example. It explains how professional seed producers ensure quality and avoid deterioration, and cites the oxeye daisy as a weed controlled by early hay cutting and notes its nutritional similarity to timothy hay. It also mentions Missouri maple sugar production near St Joseph and the Weber Brothers duck farm in Massachusetts. A brief anecdote about a village schoolmaster and a pig timing incident closes the piece, along with a note on frozen meat imports to London and ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire Experiment Station
Massachusetts
Missouri
Kansas City Journal
Vermont
Green Mountain
St. Joseph
Sugar Creek
Buchanan County