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The Journal of Heredity 



The time elapsing between emas- 

 culation and pollination depends upon 

 weather conditions. Ordinarily, the 

 time is about seventy-two hours. The 

 pollen is transferred to the stigmas whh 

 a small brush, directly from the bag in 

 which it has collected. The pollinated 

 ray, and the panicle are again properly 

 bagged. In forty-eight hours the bag 

 mav be removed from the former. 



the milos [a type of sorghum] have 

 proven to be the most difficult to cross, 

 the flowers appearing to dry up, shortly 

 after emasculation takes place. When 

 an anther is punctured during the proc- 

 ess of emasculation, the affected flower 

 should be removed from the ray. Too 



much pollen should not be placed upon 

 the stigmas. 



If all the panicles are bagged, thus 

 preventing the ix)llen from blowing 

 about, the bags may be removed from 

 the rays after each day's work of pol- 

 lination is completed. The stamens do 

 not emerge during the heat of the day, 

 Ijut emerge freely during the night. 



The work herein described was car- 

 ried on by the writer on the plant bree4- 

 ing plots of the Department of Botany 

 and Plant Breeding, of the Kansas State 

 Agricultural College, during the summer 

 of 191G, under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor H. F. Roberts. 



Training Little Children for the New LL'e 



Congress has recently recognized the 

 educational needs of little children by 

 making an appropriation to the United 

 States Bureau of Education, to enable 

 it to promote kindergarten education 

 in the several states and territories. 



This act is timely, for our people are 

 being rudely awakened to the need of 

 better training for citizenship than our 

 boys and girls are now receiving. They 

 realize the urgent necessity of properly 

 e(|uipping our children for the tre- 

 mendous tasks they will be called upon 

 to perform after the war is ended. 



The Council for National Defense 

 states that there are nearly 4,(X)0,000 

 children in the United States who can 

 not receive the benefits of kindergarten 

 training either because there are no 

 kindergartens at all or not enough. 



Training for citizenship cannot be- 



gin too early according to the United 

 States Commissioner of Education, 

 who for months has been issuing, in 

 cooperation with the National Kinder- 

 garten Association the series of articles 

 which this paper is printing, to provide 

 better training for little ones in the 

 home. 



A drive is now on to have more kin- 

 dergartens opened throughout the 

 country and parents are circulating 

 petitions to present to their boards of 

 education. The General Federation of 

 Women's Clubs, the National Congress 

 of Mothers and Parent Teacher Asso- 

 ciations, Suffrage and labor organiza- 

 tions are all deeply interested in this 

 sul)ject and great hopes are entertained 

 that tlie drive will receive the hearty 

 c()(jperati()n of local school authoritie-^ 

 tiioroughout the country. 



