crop the first season, but deteriorate in a few years. This has been 

 the experience of the writer. Corn does not do this if carefully 

 selected, but continues to improve after the first crop. We shall have 

 to take varieties best suited to the different sections of the State and 

 endeavor by selection to improve upon them. 



1. Crossbreeding. 



2. Inbreeding. 



Our Western friends report that "inbreeding" in corn is as un- 

 desirable and degenerating as in animals. The Department of Agri- 

 culture of Kansas,. in 1903, published a bulletin on this subject. By 



