Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. 215. — Showing the Results of Breeding a of to Fig. 216.—Young largest plant, on the left, is from the heaviest seed. TOBA ceo 529 best plants (Fig. 215) and by thus bagging the flowersto insure self-pollination. Only the central cluster offlowers should be bagged, the others being removed. The seeds of tobacco are extremely smaU. Thelargest of these produce much better plants thanthe smallest (Fig. 216). A special device or blowerhas been invented for use in removing the smallers
Southern field crops (exclusive of forage plants) . Fig. 215. — Showing the Results of Breeding a of to Fig. 216.—Young largest plant, on the left, is from the heaviest seed. TOBA ceo 529 best plants (Fig. 215) and by thus bagging the flowersto insure self-pollination. Only the central cluster offlowers should be bagged, the others being removed. The seeds of tobacco are extremely smaU. Thelargest of these produce much better plants thanthe smallest (Fig. 216). A special device or blowerhas been invented for use in removing the smallerseed from those to be planted (Fig. 217). Thisdevice consists of a glass tube about five feet long,with a fine-mesh ?wire screen near the bottom, anda small bellows connected with the lower end of thetube. In growng Sumatra and Cuban tobacco, it iscustomary to import the seed cverjr year or everyfew jears from Sumatra and Cuba. Cultural Methods 517. Seed-bed. — The seedof tobacco are so minute, re-quiring about 5,000,000 tomake one pound, that it isnecessary to germinate theseed and start the joung Fi«- in a specially
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