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ROOTS SELECTED FOR HIGHEST FEEDING VALUE 
EMBODYING DENSITY OF FLESH. DIGESTIBLE SOLIDS, KEEPING QUALITY.; 
REGISTERED TRADE MARK. 
A NEW METHOD IN THE SELECTION OF 
ROOT CROPS FOR SEED.' 
An important departure for the Twentieth Century. 
PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE. 
We bring- before the notice of the Agricultural 
World an entirely new method which we have adopted 
in the selection of roots for seed and the perpetua- 
tion of their highest feeding qualities ; a method 
which embodies the principle of “ the highest food 
production.” 
This is not the first time in the history of our house that 
we have been instrumental in introducing new methods of 
cross breeding and selection in the many branches of Agriculture 
and Horticulture, and the results of our past labours are 
testified by the large number of articles of sterling and abiding 
value in all departments of the Seed Trade with which our 
name stands associated and identified. 
To those who are not acquainted with the tedious processes 
of originating new races and varieties of any class of product in 
the vegetable kingdom, it would come as a surprise if they were 
informed of the length of time through which patient and 
persistent effort has to be sometimes sustained before a new 
introduction is ready to be brought before the public. 
Nature is jealous of her domain, and will not always allow 
the hand of man to influence the operation of her laws, even in 
the attempt to improve her own productions. A study of the I 
CARTERS’, 237, 238, & 97, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON.— 1901. 
laws of nature, however, when combined with practical experi- 
ence of their operations and an honest attempt to co-operate 
with nature, rather than to work against her, is never a fruitless 
undertaking, and, from the Agriculturists’ point of view, can but 
yield results of lasting and practical value. 
We have had in hand fop a long time the study 
of how to assist nature to reproduce from generation 
to generation a higher average of feeding qualities 
in Mangels, Swedes, Turnips, and other feeding roots, 
than if left to herself she is disposed to do. 
Our experiments, which have been conducted on the lines 
which through long and careful study and observation led us 
to expect profitable results, have demonstrated again and again 
that we are now opening up a new field of experimental and 
practical enterprise which portends great things Jor the future. 
We have refrained from giving publicity to this until the 
opening of the new century, as being a fitting occasion to in- 
troduce the commencement of what must prove to be a new 
era in Seed and Agricultural industries. 
Under the stimulus of high culture, nature 
produces qualities which under other conditions 
would remain unknown, and as we have adopted 
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