Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1902 — Bigger Grain Crops Possible. [ARTICLE]

Bigger Grain Crops Possible.

The department of agriculture is trying to push plant breeding in this country. It is a branch of farming work that is pursued much more diligently in Europe than in the United States, and if it were carried on- as it should be on this side of the water most important benefits would accrue to the producers of our crops. Only within the last few years has it been realized that plant life is to a wonderful extent subject to man’s control. He is almost able to act the part of a creator in the vegetable world, so greatly is it in his power to modify species by hybridizing and by artificial selection. The government is already conducting such work on quite an extensive scale.—Saturday Evening Post.