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Journal of Heredity 



(Formerly the American Breeders' Magazine) 



Vol. VI, No. 11 November, 1915 



CONTENTS 



A Hen That Crowed (Frontispiece) 482 



Poultry Breeding, by Rob R. Slocum 483 



Redfield's Offer Still Open 487 



Profitable and Unprofitable Hens 488, 489 



How the Bark Breathes 490 



New Publications: Microbes and Men, by Robert T. Morris; John 

 and Elizabeth, by Jay Gee; Eugenics and Marriage, by Lee 



Alexander Stone 493 



Effect of the Popular Sire, by Williams Haynes 494 



Natural Selection in Man 497 



Seeks to Find Best Nut-Bearing Trees 498 



Garden Gladioli, by Alfred C. Hottes 499 



New Publication Planned 504 



Propagation of Wild Birds, Review of a Book by Herbert K. Job .... 505 



Eugenics in the Colleges 511 



Maternal Impressions, by the Editor 512 



International Congress of Genealogy 518 



Ancestry of the Goat 519 



An Unusual Persimmon Tree 525 



The Tree That Owns Itself, by T. H. McHatton 526 



The Effects of Selection 527 



Some Apple Statistics 528 



Inheritance of Bad Temper 528 



The Journal of Heredity is published monthly by the American Genetic 

 Association (formerly called the American Breeders' Association) for the benefit 

 of its members. Canadian members who desire to receive it should send 25 ceats 

 a year, in addition to their regular membership dues of $2, because of additional 

 postage on the magazine; foreign members pay 50 cents extra for the same 

 reason. Subscription price to non-members, $2.00 a year, foreign postage extra; 

 price of single copies, 25 cents. 



Entered as second-class matter February 24, 1915, at the postoffice at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, under the act of August 24, 1912. Contents copyrighted 1915 by the 

 American Genetic Association. Reproduction of articles or parts of articles 

 permitted provided proper credit is given to author and to the Journal of Heredity 

 (Organ of the American Genetic Association), Washington, D. C. 



Date of issue of this number, October 25, 1915. 



