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on the other hand, will furnish the laws to make easy and popular the pro- 

 duction of wealth by dealing with the living forms we depend upon to pro- 

 duce such a large part of the commodities needed by the world. 



The most important law is that by hybridizing we can create new values. 

 The next most important law is that by selecting from among very large 

 numbers we can segregate the individual plants or animals carrying these 

 new powers and multiply them for our use. The great business proposition is 

 that values can be enormously increased at relatively slight expense. Are 

 not the government, the States and private individuals ready for larger co- 

 operation, not only to learn more about how to breed, but also to extensively 

 improve our useful friends, the plants and animals, upon whose powers of 

 inheritance we so fully depend? 



The Chair: I believe there is a great deal in what Professor Hays has told us; 

 that the principle which breeders of animals have found to be necessary, to breed, as 

 they call it, from performance, should be used in our plant work. 



