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The Journal o( Heredity 



an equal partner in the hij^jhcst respon- 

 sibility of life. Chastity is a virtue of 

 hi^h ideals of life, and of loyalty to our 

 iMifound mates and our unborn chil- 

 dren, but celibacy as a doctrine of life 

 is based on a perversion of ideas, and 

 often of instincts as well. The fal- 

 lacy is jiroven by the result that 

 celibacy works the wrong w^ay in 

 relation to the world's histor\-, not for 

 liuman progress, .Init toward degen- 

 eration of the race. 



The calamity that Roosevelt recog- 

 nized and deplored as race suicide w-as 

 the failure of so many w^ell-to-do and 

 capable people to marry and raise 

 families. The term race suicide may 

 be somewhat misleading, since deterio- 

 ration of c|ualit\- is a more serious dan- 

 ger than numerical reduction, but the 

 essential fact should not be obscured, 

 that a process of negative selection is 

 going on, to the detriment of the race, 

 and that the population of a country 

 may go on increasing, as in the Orient, 

 while (he c|iiality of the race and the 

 conditions (jf existence may decline, 

 imtil a limit f)f disaster is reached. 

 The causes of some forms of negali\(,' 

 selection may be foimd in the artificial 

 beliefs or misvaluations that lead the 

 capable people to sacrifice their family 



instincts to some idea, interest, or 

 activity that is supposed to be more 

 important. 



It is evident from this dangerous 

 tendency that people need to be 

 racially right-minded as w^ell as capa- 

 ble and tlutiful in individual relations. 

 Moreo\'er, it is becoming apparent 

 that this biological, eugenic right- 

 mindedness is not being advanced 

 by our over-developed system of edu- 

 cation, which tends strongly to steril- 

 ity, not through any direct teaching of 

 celibacy as an ideal of existence, but 

 by deferring marriage and making the 

 educational responsibilities of parents 

 appear too heavy for prudent people 

 to vmdertake. Though celibacy is not 

 taught as a religious motive or philo- 

 sophical ideal, the effect is the same, to 

 reduce and eliminate the more capable 

 stocks and leave the less capable to 

 "replenish the earth." "In New Eng- 

 land a century has witnessed the 

 passage of a many-child family to a 

 one-child family. The purest New 

 England stock is not holding its own. 

 The next stage is the no-child marriage 

 and the extinction of the stock which 

 laid the foundations of the republican 

 institutions of this countrv." 



COLOR OF CROSS BRED CALVES 



What will be the color and form of a 

 cross bred calf of the Jersey and Hol- 

 stein breeds? We have notes on six 

 such calves. Fi\e of the calves were 

 sired by our Holstein herd bull that is 

 half black and white. Tlie first calf 

 was out of a high grade Jersey cow, a 

 fawn in color. riic calf was a solid 

 itiack. i he second calf was out of a 

 grayish cow, a high grade Jersey, and 

 the calf was solid black. The third 

 calf was out of a pure bred Jersey cow 

 of yellow fawn, and the calf was marked 

 like a Holstein. It was half white and 

 black. The ff)urth calf was out of a 

 fawn cow, grade Jerse\', ancl the calf 

 was l)lack on the body with white 

 legs. All of the grade Jersey cows were 



almost pure bred, and had no Holstein 

 blood in them. The fifth calf is out of 

 a pure bred Jersey cow that is a reddish 

 fawn and the calf is half white and 

 blaik like a Holstein. A grade Holstein 

 cow that is black, mated with a Jersey 

 bull protlu'ced a solid black calf. 



Thus it seems that the Jerse>- color is 

 entirely recessi\'e to the Holstein color 

 as the fawn did not appear in the 

 caKes from Jersey cows and a Holstein 

 bull, nor from the reciprocal cross of 

 a grade Holstein cow and a Jersey bull. 

 Half of these calves were solid black, 

 one had a black bod\- and \\liite legs 

 and two were luarked like .i Holstein, 

 white and black. 7. J. Hooper, Uni- 

 versity of Kentucky. 



