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this region, but new A^arieties introduced from 

 regions with soils and climate xmlike our own 

 continually "run out," and are replaced with, 

 some new importation. We have no established 

 sort of barley, and the rye grown in the West is 

 poor, compared with some of the magnificent 

 sorts' bred by the Germans for special kinds of 

 soil and other conditions. Our farmers need 

 heavy yielding, disease-resistant varieties of po- 

 tatoes. Our stoclnnen need better grasses and 

 more suitable feeding stuffs, and everybody 

 needs better shade trees and adapted fruits and 

 garden vegetables. 



We cannot have these improvements unless 

 they are developed at home. We must improve 

 our own alfalfa, grasses and other forage. An 

 improved variety of grain or other vegetable cre- 

 ated in Europe, or in the tropics, or in a rainfall 

 region, may produce one or more good crops, but 

 many of them are unprofitable and perhaps none 

 of them will hold when planted here year after 

 year, unless adapted by selection and plant breed- 

 ing. At the same time, seeds produced under 

 our peculiar conditions of soil and climate are 

 superior. At our high altitudes, where the sea- 

 sons are short and cool we should produce many 

 hardy, quick-maturing and valuable sorts of 

 farm and garden crops. The principle is be- 

 coming well established tibat the most successful 

 seeds and plants are those which are produced in 



