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can be made by longer, more expensive and more com- 

 plicated methods possible on a state experiment farm 

 can be paid for from the profits of this first work. The 

 results of hybridizing are sometimes misleading, while 

 varieties produced by selection from standard sorts are 

 nearly always reliable. ,If carefully grown, stored, 

 cleaned and sold, seeds selected as indicated from stan- 

 dard varieties give the grower, whether a farmer Di- 

 sced firm or an experiment station, the confidence of the 

 farmers. 



These varieties sold in nice form serve to use in 

 learning how to advertise, sell, pack, ship and to follow 

 the resulting benefits from the distribution. The viekls 

 secured by purchasers of new varieties may also serve 

 as a source of information of yields and quality which 

 may be used as testimonials to encourage others to lock 

 to the breeder for superior seeds. Even the seed breeding 

 scientist at the state experiment station will find many 

 perplexing questions in the work of placing his new 

 varieties before the public. He may not want especial 

 financial returns for the station, but he does want the 

 value of his varieties fully recognized and he is not 

 doing his duty to his institution unless he secures for it 

 just recognition of any improvement made whether of 

 scientific or of economic value. But the important point 

 is that the facts as to average yield of value per acre of 

 new kinds be so collected, tabulated and advertised that 

 the conservatism of farmers will be overcome and that 

 they will be induced to adopt the better varieties and 

 widely use them. It may be that the new variety pro- 

 duced by the practical farmer is best sold through seed 

 firms, but even then the breeder needs experience and 

 knowledge of how best to deal with them and advertise 

 his varieties so that the dealer may bring the improved 

 seeds into general use to the profit of breeder, dealer 

 and grower. 



