446 The Journal 
It is impossible to keep up the stamina 
and quality of the flock, much less 
improve it, while these primary rules 
of breeding are apathetically ignored, 
and until there is a more general ob- 
servance of these esentials there can 
not be any general improvement in 
these characters in the flocks of the 
great body of commercial or utility 
poultry-keepers. The study of the in- 
dividual hens in conjunction with their 
performances in the single-pen tests 
of the last three years at Hawkesbury 
College has furnished invaluable lessons 
of Heredity 
in the correlation of type, physique, 
and fecundity, and no poultry-farmer 
should neglect to take the fullest ad- 
vantage of the opportunity for observa- 
tion provided by the 420 hens which 
are being tested in single pens this 
year. The living object-lessons will 
be there with the record of the laying 
of each as the key. It constitutes an 
educational demonstration capable of 
practical application’in their business 
as poultry-farmers, such as is not at 
the disposal of breeders in any other 
part of the world. 
Prussia Subsidizes School Teachers with Children 
According to the Pddagogische Zeit- 
ung the Prussian government, by a 
decree of October 20, 1915, has made 
tax concessions, based on the number of 
their children, to the teachers in public 
schools. The premium goes as high 
as 2,100 marks ($525), in which the 
dwelling or allowance for dwelling is not 
included. For the first and second 
child under 15 years, 6 marks; for each 
additional child 3 marks a month are 
allowed. These sums will be paid 
from the national treasury, the local 
authorities (Gemeinden) not being called 
on for any contribution; so that the 
latter will be able in this way to stop 
Increased Activity 
German plans for counteracting the 
cacogenic results of the war have 
several times been mentioned in this 
JouRNAL. We are now informed of the 
organization of a Bund zur Erhaltung 
und Mehrung der deutschen Volkskraft 
with the object of ‘safeguarding the 
soundness of present and future genera- 
tions.”’ It was organized at Halle a. 
S. with about 1,000 members, and has 
sent out a number of leaflets to the 
military forces, on such subjects as 
alcoholism, venereal diseases, and the 
need for a high birth-rate. In Berlin 
discriminating against teachers with 
large families. It is to be hoped that 
this subsidy will be continued and, if 
possibl2, increased after the war, espe- 
cially for the third and fourth child, so 
that it will be financially possible for 
the teachers to abandon the two-child 
system which has become so _ wide- 
spread among them. As the teachers 
certainly represent a physical and 
mental selection from th2 race, a step 
in the direction of national eugenics 
would thus be taken.—Fritz Lenz in 
Archiv fir Rassen- und Gesellschafts- 
Biologie, XI, p. 560. (Published in 
Munich, Germany.) 
in German Eugenics 
a Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Bevolkerungs- 
politik has been organized under the 
initiative of Geh. Regierungsrat Prof. 
Dr. Julius Wolf, with similar objects. 
Its program includes prevention of 
infant mortality, education in mother- 
craft, rural colonization, and similar 
indirect methods, as well as more 
direct propaganda. It announces that 
it will have nothing to do with “luke- 
warm researches and _half-measures.” 
Its leading spirit appears to be Dr. 
Albert Moll, a biologist internationally 
known. 
