Show BREEDING INSECT RESISTING PLANTS how one can select those that will withstand attacks of insects prom time to time various authora les have called attention to the of selecting seed from plants that have successfully withstood ad verse conditions such ia drought poor soil fungi etc it Is left to dr S A forbes illinois state entomologist to suggest the plan of selecting plants that have successfully withstood the attack of insects with the hope of building up a plant which would bo immune from such attacks in a recent address before an assoria alon 0 entomologists at madison als dr forbes said 1 I would like to see the experiment made of growing corn from seed from the few best stalks of a field which has been overrun by insects in destructive moth the hope that we might thus gradually develop varieties of this plant capable of withstanding insect attack or of selecting our seed from the best grown and most fruitful plants in a field which has suffered heavily from drought of apply ang in short the method by which rust resistant varieties of wheat and the like are now be ing formed if doctor forbes idea of breeding a stalk of corn immune from of insects la unique it Is certainly not beyond the range of possibility we hope that sooner or later this suggestion will be acted upon with th hope of developing a plant 0 superior ity to othere of the aade and |