Modifying Merrimack River

Each group of seeds were stored inside a stack of black small pieces of clothes. I took the seeds of different plants and sorted them out from the start.

"These are the seeds, distribute one stache for one farmer. Tell them once I give the signal, they will spread the seeds around. They can use whatever planting technique they know of, but make sure to plant all the amount.

The staches looked small, but I knew each contained at least a thousand seeds. That meant each farmer could plant a thousand plants in the space he controlled.

Of course planting such a large number wasn't good. But I knew not all were going to grow up. Also I wanted to select the best growing plants out of all, and unearth the weak or failed ones.

Out of each thousand seeds, if I got ten in the end, I'd be satisfied.

"Start working now," it seemed the boys down below hesitated to move. Each time they did, I stopped them. So I had to give them the order before watching them work.