10 ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
Experiments on the introduction of agriculture into the rural 
schools are also progressing in a promising manner. Bulletins 
on seed wheat, alfalfa, corn, bromus and farm management are 
being prepared for publication. Under the cooperative ar- 
rangement with the United States Department of Agriculture, 
results have accumulated which justify the preparation of a 
bulletin on statistical methods in plant breeding, and another 
on statistical investigations in farm management, for publica- 
tion by the national department. 
The experiments in breeding all the leading fieid crops of 
Minnesota, and the investigations in methods of breeding 
plants are progressing most satisfactorily. Some of the meth- 
ods and machinery devised for breeding these crops are being 
adopted by other stations and by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, thus giving evidence of the value of this work. 
The varieties of corn, spring and winter wheat, flax seed, also 
fiber, peas, oats, alfalfa, barley, millet and other crops which 
are being originated by selection and by hybridizing, followed 
by selection, are giving abundant evidence that this work is 
already adding annually thousands of dollars to the crops of 
the state, and will soon be adding millions. The development 
of breeding upon a basis comparable with modern manufac- 
turing is an achievement which the station can properly claim 
as a result of its investigations along this line. The knowl- 
edge of how to breed plants is being rapidly acquired. In- 
vestigations long since begun in the study of animal breeding 
promise as important results along that line as are being 
reached in plant breeding. Cooperation in breeding plants 
has been begun with farmers throughout the state, as well as 
with experiment stations of the surrounding states and the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. There is in the hands of 
Minnesota farmers sufficient seed of Minnesota No. 169 wheat 
and of Minnesota No. 163 wheat to sow thousands of acres 
in 1904. Since these wheats add two or three bushels per 
acre to the yields produced by the old varieties they are 
already contributing large sums to the value of the annual 
wheat crop. Minnesota No. 13 corn and some of the varieties 
of oats and barley, which have been tested for years and dis- 
tributed by the station, are also widely used throughout the 
