EVERY FARMER A PLANT BREEDER 



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tion is worthy in any improvement. In undertak- 

 ing to breed up farm crops field selection is best. 

 To secure 100 ears of corn or bolls of cotton or 

 heads of wheat that are the best in the field, that 

 are disease resisting, and at the same time that are 

 heavy yielders, is to have available for next year's 



IMPROVEMENT OF CORN BY SELECTION 



The variety shown here is the Boone County White. On 

 the right are the original types from which the ears on the 

 left were developed by selection. The yield of corn can be in- 

 creased very much if right care and attention are given in the 

 selection of the seed. 



seeding some very choice seed for a seed plot. You 

 see, in the seed plot there will be no seed used ex- 

 cepting what has been hand selected and conse- 

 quently very choice. This seed plot should pos- 

 sess a type of soil common to the farm and fairly 

 fertile; if not, it should be enriched. The same 

 seed plot should not be used, however, year after 



