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acre is at once taken to the fields and multiplied as rapidly as 

 may be for its early distribution to growers. 



Wliile increasing the seeds of tiie promising new variety it is 

 also sent to other experiment stations and branch stations of 

 the region where it is likely to prove valuable, that it may 

 there be tested also. By the time the variety has been increased 

 to some thousands of bushels for distribution to growers of 

 pure bred seeds the general facts are known as to its yield at 

 experiment stations of various regions, and if it be a wheat, its 

 milling and baking qualities can also have been determined 

 on a practical scale. 



Class of Pure-Bred Seed Growers Needed — For rapidly 

 distributing the many valuable new forthcoming varieties of 

 field crops, that they may quickly replace poorer kinds, and that 

 they may be kept pure from diseases and clean of weed seeds, 

 there needs to be developed a class of pure-bred seed grower3, as 

 we have now growers of pure-bred live stock. 



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In some states the experiment stations select the men to 

 whom they will sell at a good price their valuable new^ creations, 

 that every county and every neighborhood may liave the seeds 

 grown for them near home and at a fair, though prolitable price. 



In some cases these growers of pure-bred seeds have formed 

 state seed growers' associations. This plan of distribution of new 

 varieties helps to give to growers of valuable seeds that added 

 profit, and induces them carefully to produce and market the 

 needed large amounts of each valuable new kind of seeds, so that all 

 will grow these instead of the old-fashioned, poor yielding kinds. 



American grain growing is looking up because it is fast be- 

 coming a part of general farming, because the fields are being 

 better prepared for grain, and because science is making vast 

 improvements in machinery, in methods of cultivation, and in 

 transportation, and, especially, in the inherited power of the 

 varieties of grain themselves. 



