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Excerpt from The Improvement of Corn in Connecticut, Vol. 152: January, 1906
These conditions, then, Which make up the environment of the crop, or Which keep the environment in a suitable condition to produce a maximum crop, all involve expense to the farmer, and are to a very large extent a fixed charge; that is, the average expense though a number of years is about the same Whether the crop is fifty bushels or eighty bushels per acre.
Let us turn now to the other condition affecting productive ness, heredity, the productive fonces which reside Within the corn germ itself. Here are powerful factors in crop produc tion ready to act for or against us, With or without our knowledge or control. 'it is the province of the corn breeder to obtain knowledge of and to bring these factors under his con trol.
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