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number of seed, for cones often opened from that a part or everybody
some seed has been disseminated you/he/she will be offered for sale. Bug
larvaes destroy a great proportion of the seed, particularly also often
when the crop is light and care should be taken him that the cones
purchased you/he/she is not infested. The paid prices for cones vary from
25 cents to 50 cents for sack for the greatest cones as yellow
and white pine and 50 cents to $1.00 for Douglas the fir and it fits tightly,
depending on the abundance of the crop.
After the cones are gathered the seed it has to be drawn out and it has to be clean.
Where the climatic conditions in the autumn of the year will allow
air-drying, the cones can be shed out on sheets or covered where
they will have shown to the sun and wind. Under this treatment
they will open in from 3 to 6 days, while depending on the time
and the kind. Where the bad time will interfere with air-drying,
the cones must be dry artificial heat secret. This is the
method usually assumed by professional collectors of seed, and where
the great quantities of cones will be treated every dry special year
houses are built and they were all right with drying and elaborate apparatus.
The job can be done cheaper with such establishment, but
for lumber's owner to the agenda that is waited for to only pick up seed
every now and then, a dry-house of shift that will answer to the purpose
you/he/she can have been all right on cheap in some building not used. The main point
characteristics are shelves or carts 4 feet wide it systematized around the walls
of the room, one above of the other and it approximately separated separately 8 thumbs,
and a fed up with heating put in the center of the room. The shelves
of tense burlap can tightly be made, or, better anchor, of thread
protecting of 1-1/2 thumb or 3/4-thumb sweater.
After being submitted to a temperature that doesn't exceed 110 degs. Fahr.
for from 24 to 48 hours the cones will open, while allowing the seed to
you fall out when shaken or it checked the weight. The seed when it separated from the