SUPPLEMENT TO 



CORNELL 



IReabing^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 of Congress July i6, 1894 

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



SERIES No IX ITHACA, N. Y. No. 42 



BRFFnmr T^Trr^PAr-nl^T? q IMPROVING CORN BY 



BREEDING. DECEMBER, 1908 SEED SELECTION. 



DISCUSSION PAPER ON FARMERS' READING-COURSE 



BULLETIN NO. 42. 



A discussion paper is sent out with all Farmers' Reading-Course 

 Bulletins, for two reasons, (i) We should like to have your own ideas 

 on these subjects. On some of these points you have probably had 

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

 the Bulletin says, if you have different opinions on any of these subjects, 

 do not hesitate to state them 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 zvho return to 

 us this discussion paper, which imll he an acknozvledgment to 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 these 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. 



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