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The Journal of Heredity 



children in order to establish norms and 

 correction factors, and also to determine 

 the amount of difference in the correla- 

 tion indices where the parental relation 

 exists and does not. An appropriation 

 of $35,000 could be depended upon 

 to give results in two years. The 

 method of attack is well understood by 

 competent students of heredity, and it 

 merely requires the decision of some in- 

 stitution to undertake the investigation. 

 The writer suggests that the Children's 

 Bureau at Washington would be the 

 best agency, but since the governmental 

 initiative is sometimes difficult to in- 

 voke, it may be possible that we must 

 look to the Carnegie Institute of Wash- 

 ington or the Rockefeller or the Sage 

 foundation for the preliminary work. 



After the methodology has been per- 

 fected, how shall the method be actually 

 used? It is my belief that this work 

 should not be done by private experts 

 hired by one or the other of the litigants, 

 the system by which expert witnesses 

 are usually employed, but which is 

 nearly universally disapproved by those 

 who have given the matter attention. 

 Better, let the court call upon the Dis- 

 puted Parentage Division of the Chil- 

 dren's Bureau to make the determina- 

 tion and report to it, the Children's 

 Bureau making an appropriate charge 

 to the court for the services. By elimi- 

 nating the danger of bias, this will 

 greatly increase the confidence of judges 

 and juries in the decisions. 



Rabbit Raising Pays in Utah 



In Utah many boy and girl ckib 

 members are going into the rabbit-rais- 

 ing business, finding it most profitable, 

 according to word received by the 

 States Relations Service, United States 

 Department of Agriculture. They have 

 found that it costs about 25 cents to 

 raise a rabbit to the age of three months, 

 and that at that time it may be mar- 

 keted at 35 or 40 cents a pound. The 

 pelts bring from 15 to 75 cents, de- 

 pending on the kind of rabbit and its 

 size. Compared with poultry, rabbit 

 raising in Utah has proved much more 

 economical, as rabbits are very hardy 

 and require no expensive feed. For 



example, one club boy reports that he 

 feeds only oats, cabbage, and water. 

 In some places in the state the demand 

 exceeds the supply. Hotels and restau- 

 rants, which serve rabbit as often as 

 they do chicken, are the chief buyers. 

 The Bureau of Biological Survey and 

 the Bureau of Markets are cooperating 

 actively in developing interest in the 

 production and marketing of domesti- 

 cated rabbits and in standardizing meth- 

 ods of handling these animals and 

 the wild rabbits which are killed for 

 sport or to protect crops from their 

 depredations. — Weekly News Letter, 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Boys Teach Fathers Better Hog Raising 



Some of the boys in the two Dekalb 

 County, Ind., pig clubs are showing 

 their fathers how rapid and economical 

 gains can be made in raising pigs. Un- 

 der the direction of the local county 

 agent these boys have been able to al- 

 most double the results obtained by their 

 fathers within the same length of time 

 and feeding pigs of the same litter. The 

 boys used self-feeders and the fathers 

 did not, and the pigs which were al- 

 lowed to select their own feed made 



gains of 2 pounds a day. The club 

 members are proving, beyond question, 

 the merits of the self-feeder, and hog 

 raisers in the county of many years* 

 experience are beginning to copy the 

 boys' methods. As a result of the club 

 work, the county agent reports, many 

 fathers and sons are now planning to 

 go into partnership and raise pure- 

 bred hogs. — Weekly Nezus Letter, U. S, 

 Dept. of Agriculture. 



