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(3) Use improved tools and implements for all 

 operations. 



(4) Manure in such a way as to promote the 

 physical improvement of the soil. 



(5) Use seed that has been improved by 

 selection, and continue the selection that more 

 improvement may follow. 



Let us discuss the last named suggestion first, 

 since seed stock is always of primary importance. 



None of us can deny the influence of good 

 breeding. It is only the well selected, carefully 

 bred trotter or pacer that ever makes a record on 

 any race track; even in beef for our tables, a scrub 

 makes a tough, insipid product; and in the dairy, 

 profit comes only with carefully chosen milk cattle. 



Blood tells in men, in animals, in plants. It 

 tells in cotton in yield of seed and lint; in length, 

 in strength, in all other desirable features of the 

 fiber. 



Not to select seed with care and according to 

 some definite plan, therefore, is wasteful, costly, 

 unprofitable. 



A PROBLEM FOR THE INDIVIDUAL FARMER 



The day when any cotton planter can afford to 

 plant just any variety of any sort of seed has truly 

 passed. Good farm management in cotton grow- 

 ing, as in any kind of plant or animal production, 

 calls for the use of good seed only, seed possessing 

 qualities desired by commerce, and the ability 

 to display these qualities under the individual 

 grower's special soil, climate, and conditions. 



But to get best results, you will have to investi- 

 gate for yourself. The Agricultural College and 

 Experiment Station can determine fundamental 



