56 Breeding of Plants and Animals. 



a plot have any number as 100, 1043, I2 35> 83, or any 

 other number, the centgener number of the plot fol- 

 lowing is secured by adding the number in the plot 

 and counting the last hundred as if it were an even 

 hundred. 



Thus a plant in plat 83 might have the number 

 8374; or a plant in plat 1235 might have the number 

 123532, etc. A stake at the beginning of each plot 

 bears the centgener number which is the pedigree num- 

 ber of that stock. In the nursery year book this year's 

 centgener number in one column and last year's in on 

 adjoining column connect each stock historically with 

 its c ncestor as completely as the Short-horn Herd Book 

 shows the historical part of parentage of the "red, 

 (vhite and roans." 



