. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). ®Jy? Cornell 1R?a^t«g-01o«rsf h LESSON FOR THE FARM L. H. Bailey, Director Course for the Farm, Royal Gilkey, Supervisor VOL. II. No. 38 ITHACA, N. Y. APRIL 15, 1913 PLANT-BREEDING SERIES No. 1 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF PLANT-BREEDING* C. H. Myers The possibility of breeding plants was not wholly unknown to the ancient peoples. One of the Latin poet
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). ®Jy? Cornell 1R?a^t«g-01o«rsf h LESSON FOR THE FARM L. H. Bailey, Director Course for the Farm, Royal Gilkey, Supervisor VOL. II. No. 38 ITHACA, N. Y. APRIL 15, 1913 PLANT-BREEDING SERIES No. 1 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF PLANT-BREEDING* C. H. Myers The possibility of breeding plants was not wholly unknown to the ancient peoples. One of the Latin poets showed familiarity with the idea when he wrote the verses: " Still will the seeds, though chosen with toilsome pains, Degenerate, if man's industrious hand Cull not each year the largest and the ;. Fig. 74.— Individual rows of wheat It must not be supposed, on the other hand, that the breeding of plants was well understood. Long after the breeding of animals had become an established practice, the field of plant-breeding remained unexplored, ?Paper No. 34, Department of Plant-breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Published semi-monthly throughout the year by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Entered as second-class matter October 13, 1011, at the post office at Ithaca, N'. Y., under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. [1715]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?]
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