PRACTICAL LAWS OF LIFE 339 



Germ plasm forms germ plasm and builds up the body, but the body 

 cannot form or reproduce a single pangen or minutest particle of 

 germ plasm. 



Organized study of genetics. What is your own community 

 doing to improve its plants and animals? Many investi- 

 gators and students in our universities and colleges, our 



T looked about to see wliat 1 eouTd find 

 amon$ our nildings TKe next tiling to do wa$ to find 

 the test and earliest grape for Seed and thi$ I found in 



an accidental Seedling at tKe foot of the rsill . The crop 



1 

 uas abundant ripe in Augu$I and of very good Duality ! 



for a uild grape. 1 owed trie Seed in the autunm of 

 1843. Among them the Concord W85 the only 



one nor 



FIG. 166. Quotation from Mr. Ephraim Bull on the wooden tablet marking 

 the original Concord grapevine at Concord, Massachusetts 



Agricultural Department and experiment stations, practical 

 seedsmen, farmers, and independent plant and animal breed- 

 ers, are studying and experimenting and pushing discovery in 

 this field. Invite local experts to visit the class and discuss 

 their problems. Often by community cooperation better stock 

 can be introduced than any one member could afford, and its 

 rapid increase insures enormous profits to such undertakings. 

 Railroad companies and the International Harvester Company 

 have agricultural experts who are helping along these lines. 

 Hunt out stories of the discovery and introduction of new 

 fruits, vegetables, grains, breeds of animals, and in the spirit 



