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(3) Use improved tools and implements for all 
operations. 
(4) Manure in such a way as to promote the 
physical improvement of the soil. 
(5) Use seed that has been improved by 
selection, and continue the selection that more 
improvement may follow. 
Let us discuss the last named suggestion first, 
since seed stock is always of primary importance. 
None of us can deny the influence of good 
breeding. It is only the well selected, carefully 
bred trotter or pacer that ever makes a record on 
any race track; even in beef for our tables, a scrub 
makes a tough, insipid product; and in the dairy, 
rofit comes only with carefully chosen milk cattle. 
Blood tells in men, in animals, in plants. It 
tells in cotton—in yield of seed and lint; in length, 
in strength, in all other desirable features of the 
fiber. 
Not to select seed with care and according to 
some definite plan, therefore, is wasteful, costly, 
unprofitable. 
A PROBLEM FOR THE INDIVIDUAL FARMER 
The day when any cotton planter can afford to 
plant just any variety of any sort of seed has truly 
passed. Good farm management in cotton grow- 
ing, as in any kind of plant or animal production, 
calls for the use of good seed only, seed possessing 
qualities desired by commerce, and the ability 
to display these qualities under the individual 
grower’s special soil, climate, and conditions. 
But to get best results, you will have to investi- 
gate for yourself. The Agricultural College and 
ixperiment Station can determine fundamental 
