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Excerpt from Ferguson's Bred-Up Field Seeds for the Southwestern Farmer Some good things for this world are chance discoveries, but usually most discoveries are made by persons who are on the look-out. The original new boykin cotton Was a chance mutation, but its discovery and isolation was made possible by our system of breed ing blocks where seeds of selected stalks are planted in adjacent rows. The grand parent of ferguson' S new boykin belonged to a champion strain of Mebane Triumph from which many selected plants were saved. Its parent (strain 8-06) was likewise a champion strain from which numerous selections were planted in the breeding block of 1913. One of these selections, while resembling its brother-in-parentage, proved to be noticeably different and superior in several agricultural qualities. Its first discovery is shown above, as photographed November 22, 1913. The adjacent rows have the same number and spacing of stalks. The stalks are just two feet apart in the drill. Its superiority over Mebane Triumph is obvious. It has since been greatly improved by 14 years of breeding-up by Ferguson Seed Farms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.