Hayes and Garber - Cucurbit Breeding

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row breeding seems unnecessary. It seems sufficient here to point
out that there are no experiments which show conclusively that
continued ear-to-row breeding may be expected to give a significantly
higher yield than seed produced by the seed-plot method.
Ear-to-row breeding with a variety that has not been systematically
selected is doubtless the most rapid means available to
the corn farmer for the isolation of better yielding hereditary
combinations. As an illustration of the sort of results usually
obtained, the results of a five years' study as carried on at
Nebraska (Kiesselbach, 1916) are given in Table XLVI.
TABLE XLVI. EFFECT OF EAR-TO-ROW BREEDING ON THE YIELD OF
.HOGUE'S YELLOW DENT, AT THE NEBRASKA STATION, 1911-1915