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work of a similar nature at many of 

 the State Experiment Stations in the 

 United States. The various stations 

 have been asked to supply a brief 

 statement of any work in poultry 

 breeding which they may be carrying 

 on and the replies of those stations which 

 sent in a report and are carrying on any 

 work of this nature are briefly sum- 

 marized below : 



Purdue University Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Lafayette, Indiana. 



A study of the influence of inheritance on 

 egg production. 



Kansas Experiment Station, Man- 

 hattan, Kansas. 



A study of the value of standard bred males 

 from high producing lines in grading mongrel 

 flocks. 



Maine Experiment Station, Orono, 

 Maine. 



1. Inheritance of fecundity and breeding 

 for egg production. 



2. Mendelian inheritance of various plumage 

 and other bodily characters. 



3. Inheritance of body size, egg size and color. 



4. Inbreeding. 



5. The effect of various external agents on 

 the germ plasm. 



6. The inheritance and determination of sex. 



Massachusetts Experiment Station, 

 Amherst, Massachusetts. 



1. Breeding for egg production. 



2. A study of the hatching quality of eggs 

 from the genetic standpoint. 



3. Inheritance of various external characters 

 of poultry. 



Missouri Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Columbia, Missouri. 



A study of sex-limited inheritance of the 

 spangled pattern of the Hamburg and the 



"hen-feathering" of the Sebright 

 cocks. 



Bantam 



New Jersey Experiment Station, New 

 Brunswick, New Jersey. 



1. Inheritance of fecundity. 



2. Inheritance of various plumage character- 

 istics and other body characters. 



3. The barred factor in Single Comb White 

 Leghorns. 



4. Inheritance of shell color. 



North Carolina Experiment Station, 

 West Raleigh, North Carolina. 



1. Inheritance of high egg production. 



2. Inheritance of shell color of eggs. 



Oregon Experiment Station, Corvallis, 

 Oregon. 



1. Inheritance of high egg laying. 



2. Correlation between type and high egg 

 laying. 



3. Crossbreeding. 



4. The development of a special variety of 

 chickens with high egg production and also 

 good meat quality. 



Utah Experiment Station, Logan, 

 Utah. 



1. A study of the possibility of improving 

 egg production by continued selection. 



2. A study of egg production with special 

 reference to (a) average winter egg production 

 as compared with the average yearly produc- 

 tion covering a period of the first, second and 

 third years of production, and (b) limits of 

 seasonal variation in the average flock produc- 

 tion. 



Wisconsin Experiment Station, Mad- 

 ison, Wisconsin. 



1. Experiments on inbreeding. 



2. Study of the effects of lead poison of the 

 male upon his offspring. 



3. Inheritance of plumage color and some 

 other characters in pigeons. 



Redfield's Offer Still Open 



Attention is called to the fact that C. L. Redfield's offer of a reward for data 

 regarding early marriages closes at the end of the present year, and up to date has 

 not been productive of results. He proposes to donate $100 to this association 

 "if it can be shown that any superior individual ever was produced by breeding 

 human beings as rapidly as four generation in a century," or "if there can be found 

 more than three cases in which the intellectually superior person has as many as 

 four generations in a century in the tail-male alone." By "superior individuals" 

 he understands "any one of the 2,000 or 3,000 intellectually eminent men known to 

 history." Again, raising the standard to the two or three hundred great geniuses 

 of history, he proposes to donate another $100 if a single one of them can be found 

 in the three-generations-to-a-century class. The association will be glad to hear 

 from genealogists who can throw light on these matters. 



