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to give deserved reputation to the locality and 

 to bring better prices to the grower." 



"It is coming to be realized that in plant 

 breeding consideration must be given to the 

 character of the soil on which the strains have 

 been produced, as well as to the character of 

 the soil upon which it is proposed to use the 

 selected seed for crop production. Cotton 

 which has been carefully selected until it pro- 

 duces large crops on rich bottom lands will 

 not do so well on sandy uplands. * * * * 



"Further, it is quite probable that some of 

 the soils which we count as unproductive and 

 unsuited to our staple crops, or where the ex- 

 pense of putting them in condition for good 

 yields would not at this time be justified, 

 may be found to be particularly adapted for 

 new crops for food, drugs or fiber, or plants 

 might be adapted to them by introduction or 

 breeding. This has been the experience in 

 many notable cases; for example, the utiliza- 

 tion of the light sands of the Coastal Plain 

 for truck crops, which only twenty-five or 

 thirty years ago were considered, and indeed 

 were, quite worthless for agricultural crops 

 under the conditions that had prevailed. Also 

 the utilization of the otherwise quite value- 

 less coast prairie lands of Louisiana and Texas 

 for rice culture, when a particular variety of 

 rice, able to stand the peculiar conditions, was 

 found by one of our explorers in Japan." 



