ADVANTAGES OF "PEDIGREE CULTURE'' 



'In employing the old method of 'selection in mass,'" says Mr. Nilsson, "we were working 

 blindly without knowing how or when or even whether we would some day reach stability 

 of the type, which was more important than any other quality." It is obvious from an 

 inspection of the photographs on these two pages, showing four types differing so widely 

 in habit and yet taken from the same old sort, that the problem was not to be easily solved 

 as long as they were mixed together. When they are isolated as pedigreed cultures, as 

 here shown, "all fear of failure because of insurmountable variations is eliminated. The 

 varieties are already there, and fixed from the beginning of the work; the only difficulty 

 is to learn to recognize them and to place the proper valuations upon them." (Fig. 3.) 



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