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INDEX 



Jones, Rev. E. Lewis, experience 



with Campine fowl, 95-96 

 Le Couteur and the improvement of 



grain crops, 121 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, experience in breeding 

 egg-laying poultry, 97 

 Mass selection, 120 

 Mendel's experiments, 1-11 

 law, 12-21 



work, observations and deduc- 

 tions from, 22-29 

 Mice, colours, 33-37 

 Milk, quality, 120-140, 149 

 quantity, 141-144, 149 

 records, 132 

 Murphy, Miss, criterion for esti- 

 mating annual egg yields, 99-100 

 Nilsson-Ehle, Professor, experi- 

 ments in crossing oats and 

 wheats of different colours, 

 111-118 

 work in breeding higher yield- 

 ing wheats, 121-128, 133 

 the bearing of his work on the 

 application of Mendelism, 

 145, 148 

 Nilsson, Professor Hjalmar and the 

 Svalof Seed-breeding Station, 

 121 

 Oat grains, the colours of, 111-114 

 Pearl, Dr. Raymond, the colours 

 of Barred Rock and Indian 

 Game fowl, 93 

 criterion for annual egg yields, 



99 

 experiments on the inheri- 

 tance of egg laying, 97-lOG 

 the bearing of his work on 

 the application of Mendelism, 

 145, 148 

 Polygamous factors, 70-89 

 Quality in milk, 128-140 

 Quantity, 119-144 

 in milk, 141-144 



Rabbit colours, 37-41, 42-51 

 Red Danish cows, the quality of 



their milk, 129-131, 140 

 Resistance of wheat to winter, 



lodging and rust, 124-126 

 Reversions, 58 

 Sex and hybridism, 90-107 

 Selection, methods of, 120-121 

 Shirreff, Patrick, selecting im- 

 proved varieties of grain, 121 

 experience with crosses, 147 

 Shorthorn cattle colours, 63-69 

 Similar effects, 111-118 

 Single ear selections, 121 

 Spillman, W. J., hypothesis as to 



the female sex in fowl, 92 

 Suppressed effects, 42-57 

 Svalof Seed-breeding Station, 111, 



119, 147 

 Tillering, 126 



Wentworth, Professor E. N., 



data concerning Shorthorn 



colours, 67 



hypothesis as to Shorthorn 



colours, 68 



Walther, Dr., data concerning 



horse colours, 76, 77-79, 82 

 Welinder, Birger, and the Svalof 



Seed Association, 119 

 Wheat, colours of grains, 114-118 

 yields, 122-128 



resistance to winter, lodging 

 and rust, 125 

 Wliite cattle, 62-69 

 " White " cattle, 53, 63 

 White fowl, 53 

 " White " fowl, 53 

 Wilckens, Dr. M., on horse colours, 



75 

 Winter "hard" and winter "soft" 



wheats, 123 

 Yields, eggs, 97-106 

 milk, 141-144, 149 

 wheat, 119-128, 146 

 Zebra hybrids, 89 



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