Bush-Brown: Heredity in Horses 
Of the Thoroughbreds that were out 
of it, there was one on first day, three 
on the third day and one on the fourth 
day and one on the fifth day. 
The Morgans did a little better. Of 
the six entered, two finished in sixth 
and seventh places. Of those that 
were dropped for fatigue, one was on 
the third day and three on the fourth 
day. 
The summary is as follows: 
STARTING $ 
Thoroughbreds: 5 registered and 5 
grades 
Arabs: 5 registered and 5 grades 
Morgans: 5 registered and 1 grade 
Standard bred trotters: 2 
FINISHING 
5 Arabs and derivatives, 50 percent 
of starters 
3 Thoroughbreds and derivatives, 
33 percent of starters 
2 Morgans, 33 percent of starters. 
Thus it may be seen, that of the 28 
to start, ten finished. 
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This endurance test goes far to jus- 
tify the statement that breeding race 
horses for a fast mile does not produce 
horses for long distance. Endurance 
requires a type bred for endurance. 
One might as well ask a running 
horse to trot a fast mile or a trotting 
horse to run a fast mile as to put these 
horses in an endurance test to carry 
two hundred and fifty pounds on their 
backs sixty miles a day for five days. 
Let us make a national sport of this 
type of endurance horse in the interest 
of better horses for the army and breed 
an endurance type. 
The first, second and third horses in 
this contest were of the Hunter type 
which is well recognized, but some 
breeders claim it is not a reproducing 
type. If these contests are continued 
and horses bred for the type demon- 
strated to be the best, it can be made 
reproducing just as the Standard trot- 
ters are now a reproducing type 
derived from Thoroughbred founda- 
tion. 
A NEW GENETICS JOURNAL 
EREDITAS, a new journal for 
H the publication of original re- 
searches in genetics, appears in 
its first issue under the auspices of the 
Mendelian Society in Lund, Sweden. 
H. Nilsson-Ehle, president of the 
society, has associated with him on the 
editorial committee Herman Lundborg, 
Nils Heribert-Nilsson, and Gustav 
Thulin.- The editor of the journal is 
Robert Larsson, Adelgatan 7, Lund, 
Sweden. 
Papers will be published in either 
English, French, or German, and it is 
expected that three numbers of the 
journal will be issued yearly to make 
up a volume of 350 pp. The contents 
of the first issue follow: _ 
H. Nuitsson-EHLE: Uber Resistenz 
gegen Heterodera Schachti bei gewissen 
Gerstensorten, ihre Vererbungsweise 
und Bedeutung fiir die Praxis~—H. 
LunpBorG: Hereditary Transmission 
of Genotypical Deaf-Mutism.—NILs 
HERIBERT-NItsson: Zuwachsgeschwin- 
digkeit der Pollenschliuche und gestérte 
Mendelzahlen bei Oenothera  La- 
marckiana (With an English sum- 
mary).—HANs TEDIN: The Inheritance 
of Flower Colour in Pisum.—EMANUEL 
BERGMAN: A Family with Hereditary 
(Genotypical) Tremor.—Hans_ Ras- 
MUSON: Uber einige genetische Ver- 
suche mit Papaver Rhoeas, und Pa- 
AKERMAN: 
paver laevigatum.—A. 
Speltlike Bud-sports in Common 
Wheat.—J. Rasmusson: Mendelnde 
Chlorophyll-Faktoren bei Allium cepa. 
