. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. doers. But this elimination must be done in the fieldat picking time. We can do no mixing. We mustsecure seed from the superior plants and keep itseparate from the general lot. It must be ginnedseparately, too, else our pains and labor will cometo naught. By discarding seed from poorly producingplants, and securing it only from the best, the pro-cess of improvement will work quickly and surely,and will reward the planter even more liberallythan he might expect. This means, furthermore, that we shall abando
. Cotton, its cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton world. doers. But this elimination must be done in the fieldat picking time. We can do no mixing. We mustsecure seed from the superior plants and keep itseparate from the general lot. It must be ginnedseparately, too, else our pains and labor will cometo naught. By discarding seed from poorly producingplants, and securing it only from the best, the pro-cess of improvement will work quickly and surely,and will reward the planter even more liberallythan he might expect. This means, furthermore, that we shall abandonthe practice of getting seed for planting at the ginexcept from cotton previously gathered fromselected plants and set aside for planting purposes. SELECT MORE THAN ONE PLANT The plan of selecting more than one plant forbreeding stock is a good one, since it gives youbetter opportunity for the study of the transmittingpower of each individual; and this increased num-ber of plants for breeding purposes also aids yougreatly in approaching the special type you areendeavoring to §1 o .s O -5 a; ^ O == .5 1 ?< ^
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