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animals, the main purpose of the farmer must always be, 

 next to the increase of yield, to improve the protein and the 

 oil. For, to put it in a few words, protein is a muscle form- 

 er and oil is the fat producing material. From this point 

 of view corn breeding should always embrace both c^uantity 

 and quaUty. 



Corn breeding is a new industry. It is hardly older than 

 ten years. But it has developed at once on a commercial 

 scale. Experience proves it to be highly profitable, and 

 the conviction is rapidly spreading that no corn grower 

 can afford to be ignorant of its principles and its results. 



