CORNELL 



1Reabing*Course for ^farmers 



Published Monthly by the New York State College op 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 IX. 

 BREEDING. 



ITHACA. N. Y., 

 NOVEMBER, 1908 



No. 41. 



IMPROVING PLANTS BY 



SELECTION OR BREEDING. 



IMPROVING PLANTS BY SELECTION OR BREEDING 



H. J. Webber 

 Professor of Experimental Plant-Breeding 

 Rapidly accumulating evidence points every day more and more 

 strongly to the great practical importance of plant breeding. The 



Fig. 



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-Heads of Seneca Chief wheat showing variation in size 

 and yield. 



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