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Journal of Heredity 



(Formerly the American Breeders' Magazine) 



Vol. IX, No. 4 April, 1918 



CONTENTS 



Tropical Varieties of Maize, by G. N. Collins 117 



Improper Feeding among New York School Children 154 



Advertising New Plant Foods, by David Fairchild 155 



Ohio Germination Tests Reveal Lack of Good Seed Corn 157 



Another Chance for the Filbert 158 



Improvement of Beans in Manchuria 160 



Lethal Factors and Sterility, by John Belling 161 



Improvement of Labor Conditions for Women in France 165 



An Anomaly of Wheat Anthers, by S. A. Anthony 166 



Reciprocal Breeding in Tomatoes, by Byron D. Halsted 169 



Proposed South African Agricultural Census 173 



A Dry Blood -orange Strain, by A. D. Shaniel 174 



A New Eugenics Organization Founded in Brazil 177 



Pigmentation in Guinea-pig Hair, by Harrison R. Hunt 



and Sewall Wriglit 178 



Budding Incompatible Cottons 181 



Some Observations on iMonkeys, by R. W\ Shufeldt 182 



Penetration of Scion by Stock, by G. B. Patvardhan 187 



Striking Orange Bud Variations, by A. D. Shamel 189 



Nature as a Nature Faker, by E. P. Humbert 192 



The Journal of Heredity is published monthly by the American Genetic 

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Entered as second-class matter Februar>' 24, 1915, at the postoffice at Washintj- 

 ton, D. C, under the act of August 24, 1912. Contents copyrighted 1918 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, M.\rch 30, 1918. 



