. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Improving Plants by Selection or Breeding. 557 to be worthless. Shortly after this, when the other ball was practically ripe, and he was expecting to harvest it, he visited the plant and found that this second ball had disappeared. Mr. Burbank, in describing the incident, said that, boy-like, he fell on his knees and searched for the ball, crying over its loss. Every day, for nearly a week after, he visited the location an
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Improving Plants by Selection or Breeding. 557 to be worthless. Shortly after this, when the other ball was practically ripe, and he was expecting to harvest it, he visited the plant and found that this second ball had disappeared. Mr. Burbank, in describing the incident, said that, boy-like, he fell on his knees and searched for the ball, crying over its loss. Every day, for nearly a week after, he visited the location and looked for this lost seed ball. He said that he could not give it up as lost and finally he found it some 15 or 16 feet away from the original plant, hidden under another vine, where it had evidently fallen after having been knocked off by some one passing the plant rapidly. He preserved the seed ball, grew the seed the next year, and from among the progeny selected the original plant which gave the Burbank potato. This success stimu- lated him in his early desire to breed plants, and is prob- ably responsible for the great success which he has achieved. The writer is acquainted with a. Connecticut boy who has recently started on a career which may equal that of Burbank. Several years ago when a boy of some 16 years of age, he obtained some of the select seed of Reed's Yellow Dent corn, a variety which originated in Illinois, and is grown very extensively in that and other corn states of the west. This variety, while a heavy yielder, is too late for Connecticut conditions. However, he grew the corn and each year, selected seed from the earliest progenies, that is, those progenies which produced the largest percentage of ripe ears, and were, at the same time, high yielders. Within a few years he exhibited his corn at the. Fig. Heads of Gold Coin Wheat showing variations in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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