BREEDING NEW GRAINS 



The actual demonstrations upon farms where 

 the new wheats have been raised take the 

 matter out of the realm of conjecture and 

 theory. 



In some ways, still more wonderful than this 

 has been the breeding of a wheat to fit a 

 climate. In portions of the South there are 

 large areas which have been held to be unfit 

 for wheat production. They were wheat-lands 

 to all intents and purposes, but they had sadly 

 deteriorated. In the state of Tennessee the 

 wheat production had fallen in 1900 to about 

 eight millions of bushels on something like a 

 million of acres of land which ought to have 

 been yielding wheat. The trouble was there 

 was no wheat which would grow upon this soil 

 and produce good results. 



At the experiment station of the university 

 of the state it was determined to breed a 

 wheat which should fit the climate and soil. 

 After years of study into climatic and general 

 weather conditions, after years of testing, breed- 

 ing and selection, a wheat was produced 

 which, instead of the usual average of eight or 

 ten bushels per acre upon the supposed-to-be 

 infertile soil, has produced as high as forty- 



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