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INATOR SELECTION, with very 

 satisfactory results. This (indi- 

 cating) shows a field grown from 

 seed that has been selected and 

 prepared in that way for four 

 years. We feel confident that 

 you will all be well repaid by 

 following these recommendations. 

 Meanwhile, we hope you will go 

 home and consider a few of the 

 salient features about corn breed- 

 ing about which I spoke. 

 I thank you. [Applause.] 

 PRESIDENT MANN: One of 

 the hard things in human life is to 

 get rid of the carbon dioxide, and 

 it's a hard thing for plants to get 

 rid of it fast enough. They say if 

 you hold your breath long enough 

 the carbon-dioxide will change to 

 alcohol in your blood and cause 

 intoxication. This same carbon- 

 dioxide as it floats in the air comes 

 in contact with some of the corn 

 leaves, mixes up and makes sugar. 

 If you haven't learned anything 

 else, I think you will begin to learn 

 something about the complexities 

 of corn plants. 



Agriculture has another thing to 

 congratulate itself on in this state, 

 and that is that the University 

 trustees have given to agriculture 

 a man who is the most efficient, 

 perhaps, in the world, and turned 

 him over to agriculture, to study 

 these plants for us. We don't know 

 much about plants; we don't know 

 much about their construction; we 

 don't know much about their habits 

 and their idiosyncrasies. We are 

 just beginning to learn something 

 about them. That man the Uni- 

 versity turned over to agriculture 

 is Dr. Hottes. He is going to do 

 wonderful things foT*agriculture in 

 the next few years, and perhaps 

 less.^ Dr. Hottes will now address 

 you. 



