(parents, grand-parents, etc.). The improvement and 

 increased yield of a crop by modification of environment, 

 although a necessary process to successful agriculture, 

 can only be accomplished at an expense, more or less 

 considerable. Heredity, however, is a silent force, 

 which acts without expense." Breeding and selection, 

 therefore, are just as important in the vegetable as in 

 the animal kingdom. This phase of agriculture is not 



Photo taken ny Maharijkcmar Victor X. Xaray^x. 

 Residence of Mr. Holmes, an American tobacco planter in Pinor del Rio, 

 Cuba. The figures from the left are Mr. Holmes (Jr.), a farm Assistant, 

 the Mayor of Pinor del Rio, Mr. Holmes (Sr.), Miss Holmes, Mrs. Holmes, 

 Mr. I. B. De Ma jumdar, and the Secretary to the Governor of Pinor del Rio. 



as well understood by the Indian cultivators as bv their 

 f el low-workers in Europe and America. In the United 

 States, seeds of tobacco as well as those of other crops 

 are properly selected by seed merchants as well as by the 

 Department of Agriculture, the latter sending the seeds 

 free to the farmers who apply for them. The methods 

 followed are briefiv described here. 



