598 EXPERIMENT STATION KECOED. 



iiiul Nut Trees, by G. L. Clothier; The Eliiniiiiition of the Gullied Hillside 

 Through Tree Breeding, by J. R. Smith ; Breeding Sorghum, by C. O. Townsend ; 

 Work Conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture in Breeding 

 High Grade Strains of Sugar Beet Seeds and Testing Imported Varieties, by 

 J, E. W. Tracy; Some Principles of Poultry Breeding, by C. B. Davenport; 

 Natural r. Artificial Incubation in Poultry Breeding, by James Dryden ; The 

 Factor Hypothesis in Relation to Plumage Color, by C. B. Davenport ; A Few^ 

 Preliminary Experiments on the Effect of the Age of the Parents Upon the 

 Vigor of Chickens, .by Horace Atwood ; Some Observations in Telegony, by 

 E. H. Riley ; Breeding Tobacco for High and Low Nicotine Content, The Rela- 

 tion of Nicotine to the Quality of Tobacco, by W. W. Garner ; History of Zimmer 

 Spanish Tobacco, by A. D. Selby ; Tobacco Seed Separation, Selection, and 

 Propagation, by D. P. Cooley ; The Production of a New Strain of Tobacco and 

 its Development, by J. B. Stewart ; Maryland Tobacco Breeding Work, by D. E. 

 Brown ; Work on Tobacco Breeding in Kentucky and Tennessee for 11J08, by 

 W. H. ScherfBus ; Report on the Improvement of Filler and W^ rapper Tobacco 

 in Eastern Texas by Seed Selection, by W. M. Hinson ; The Present Status of 

 Apple Breeding in America, by S. A. Beach; Characteristic of Wealthy Apple 

 Seedlings, by W. T. ^Nlacoun ; Effect of Different Methods of Selection on the 

 Fixation of Hybrids, by W. J. Spillman; What are Factors in Mendelian Ex- 

 planation? by T. H. Morgan; Inbreeding and Degeneration, by C. B. Davenport; 

 Intiuence of P'ood Supply on Variation, by H. H. Love; Bud Variations and 

 Their Meaning, by H. J. Webber; A Plan for Breeding Swine, by D. A. (Jaum- 

 nitz; Fundamental Principles of Successful Swine Breeding, by William Diet- 

 rich ; Experiments on Living Birds to Determine Effect of Humidity on Colora- 

 tion of Plumage, by C. W. Beebe ; Propagation of Game Birds in Captivity, by 

 Wallace Evans; A Statement of Necessary Changes in Game Laws in the Inter- 

 est of Breeders, by D. W. Huntington ; Genetic I^aws Applied : Results with 

 Hybridized Swine, by Q. I. and J. P. Simpson ; Hybridizing the Virginia Deer, 

 by J. W. Griggs; General Report on the Raising of Deer, by D. E. Lantz : and 

 Another Mode of Species Forming, by Luther Burbank. 



Among the committees submitting formal reports were the following : On 

 Pedagogics of Breeding, E. Davenport ; On Pure Bred Seed and Plant Business, 

 by C. A. Shamel ; On Breeding Roses, by W. Van Fleet ; On Breeding Forage 

 Crops, by C. Y. Piper ; On Breeding Nut and Forest Trees, by G. B. Sudworth ; 

 On Breeding Poultry, by C. B. Davenport; On Breeding Sheep and Goats, by W. 

 C. Coffey : and On Eugenics, by David Starr Jordan. ]Many other reports and 

 papers were also submitted and will be incorporated in the annual report of the 

 proceedings, which it is hoped to issue at an early date. 



The association adopted a resolution favoring the amendment of State game 

 laws to permit the sale at all times of live game for propagation and the sale, 

 except during the breeding season, of game reared in a wild state by breeders 

 and farmers. Federal legislation was advocated in connection with the taking 

 of the Thirteenth Census whereby in certain parts of the country data may be 

 collected relative to heredity in man, and the committee on eugenics was author- 

 ized to prepare schedules for the purpose. 



Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: Hon. Janie?< Wilson, 

 Washington, D. C, president; William George, Aurora, 111., vice-president; 

 W. M. Hays, Washington, D. C, secretary; N. H. Gentry, Sedalia. Mo., treas- 

 urer: O. E. Bradfute, Cedarville, Ohio, chairman, and C. B. Davenport, Cold 

 Spring Harbor, N. Y., secretary of the animal section ; and H. J. Webber, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., chairman, and N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. Dak., secretary of the plant 

 section. 



American Society of Agricultural Engineers. — The second annual meeting of 

 this soci(>tv was held at the Universitv of Illinois December 29 and ot». 1908. 



