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-acteristic and the ability to 

 transmit this characteristic to 

 the progeny. It is for this 

 reason that we have planted 

 thousands of seeds where 

 "hundreds only might have 

 been planted. It is why we 

 have planted acres of ground 

 to promising strains of plants 

 under severe conditions and 

 why we have grown thou- 

 sands of wheat plants under 

 the most severe exposure to 

 wheat rust and other plant 

 -diseases. The one individual 

 plant that has the power to 

 resist rust and at the same 

 time the power to transmit 

 this quality to its progeny 

 would be worth millions of 

 dollars to the wheat growers 

 ■of the Northwest. Is there 

 such a plant, may rightly be 

 asked? I believe there is. 

 Just as some men resist small- 

 pox, yellow fever arid similar 

 diseases, or as certain hogs 

 resist cholera when all about 

 them are infected, so we may 

 find wheat plants that resist 

 the ravages of rust, entirely 

 or nearly so, or apple trees 

 that resist blight. 



We have already noted 

 marked differences in this 

 respect in our wheats that 

 "have been developed from 

 single seeds from carefully 

 selected stocks, and the work 

 IS only in its infancy. 

 Enough has not been done, 

 liowever, when the individual 





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