EFFORTS TO INCREASE FOOD RESOURCES 



lovely rose is brightening homes and gracing gardens all 

 over the United States. 



One of the first large-flowered, hardy climbers that 

 popularized this class of roses was Christine Wright. 

 This variety came from one of four fertile seeds grown 

 on a climbing American Beauty flower crossed with 

 Caroline Testout by James A. Farrell at West Chester, 

 Pennsylvania. One of the other four seeds produced Purity. 

 To get such good roses from so few seeds is an event 

 that is not likely to happen often. Other rose breeders 

 have had to work harder for their successes. At Richmond, 

 Indiana, E. G. Hill grew five thousand seedlings at one 

 time. All but sixty were discarded as soon as they flowered; 

 of these, fifteen were selected for further trial and only 

 two were named and distributed. But these two were 

 Premier and Columbia, roses that stand among the first 

 in the greenhouse class and are widely grown outdoors. 



Plants, being fixed in one location, must be adjusted 

 to the physical and chemical nature of the soil and so 

 regulated that they will ripen properly in the available 

 growing season, even in the most unfavorable years. For 

 these reasons the genetic constitution of plants will always 

 demand a great deal of attention. Animals can be moved 

 anywhere. If the weather is too cold, they can be housed. 

 If their feed is not suitable, it can be changed. Livestock 

 that does well in one part of the world often does equally 

 well in another. Therefore farm animals do not need the 

 attention of the breeders so much as plants. On the other 

 hand, the individual animal is worth much more than the 

 individual plant. The good and bad qualities of a domestic 

 animal are more apparent, and the reproduction of animals 

 is more easily controlled. The breeding of animals has 

 always engaged the attention of farmers from the very first. 



Early Egyptian carvings show that the cattle of the 

 Pharaohs had many of the desirable qualities of the beef 



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