As I had just as much faith in wheat
turning to one as the other, 1 resolved
to sow no more of the seed of either,
and took a screen off an old fan, put a
rim around it, sat down by my heap of
seed wheat, cockle and cheat or chess,
and sieved it so long as any cheat,
cockle or small grains of wheat would
go through. I sowed ouly what would
not pass through. The result was,
scarcely a stalk of anything but wheat
could be found in 45 acres the next
harvest, and what few stalks appeared
I presume had been in the manure.
treated my seed the same way the next
fall. The following spring, in sowing
grass seed over 50 acres, I found but
one stalk or cockle; and in harvesting.
not a handful of cheat, and no cockle
was found notwithstanding the wheat
had been badly winter-killed, and one
. iield near the barn had been run on,
tramped and eaten by the Limits and
chickens very much. Cor. Famum'
friend.
