SUPPLEMENT TO 



CORNELL 



1ReabinG= Course for Jfarmers 



Published Monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture 

 AT Cornell University from November to March, and Entered at 

 Ithaca as Second-class Matter under Act op Congress July i6, 1894. 

 L. H. Bailey. Director. Charles H. Tuck, Supervisor. 



SERIES No. IX. ITHACA, N. Y. METHODS OF BREEDING AND 



BREEDING. JANUARY, 1909. IMPROVING THE POTATO CROP 



DISCUSSION PAPER ON FARMERS' READING-COURSE 



•BULLETIN NO. 43 



A 'discussion paper is sent out with each Bulletin of the Reading- 

 Course for Farmers for two reasons: (i) We should like to have your 

 ideas on the subjects. On some of the points you have probably had 

 experience that will be interesting and valuable to us. No matter what 

 the Bulletin says, if you have a different opinion on any of the subjects, 

 do not hesitate to state it on this paper and give your reasons. 

 (2) We should like you to use this paper on which to ask us questions. 

 If there are any points which the Bulletin has not made clear or if there 

 are any problems in your farming, whether on these subjects or others, 

 on which you think we may be able to help you, write to us on this 

 paper. 



The next Reading-Course Bulletins will he sent to those who return to 

 lis this discussion paper, which will be acknowledgment of the receipt 

 of this Bulletin. This paper will not be returned to you, but we shall 

 look it over as carefully as we would a personal letter, and write to you 

 if there are any points about which correspondence is desirable. You 

 may consider this Discussion-paper, then, as a personal letter to us. It 

 will be treated as such, and under no circumstances will you be quoted. 

 As the Discussion-paper will contain written matter, it will require letter 

 postage. 



If you are not interested in this Reading-Course Bulletin, we have 

 others on other subjects, and we shall be glad to send any of them to 

 you on request. The titles of the nine series of the Reading-Course 

 Bulletins now available are: i. The Soil and the Plant. 2. Stock Feed- 

 ing. 3. Orcharding. 4. Poultry. 5. Dairying. 6. Farm Buildings and 

 Yards. 7. Helps for Reading. 8. Miscellaneous. 9. Breeding, 



