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individuals under conditions similar for each, and there- 

 fore more difficult to determine which individuals excel, 

 and it is still more difficult so to compare the breeding 

 power of each superior individual that the very best 

 in this characteristic of prepotency, or projected breed- 

 ing efficiency may be chosen as the basis of the im- 

 proved breed. 



10. Organized co-operation among animal breeders, 

 preferably grouped near together as in a county, is 

 of especial significance, that the individuality of many 

 animals of the same breed may be fairly compared; 

 also that the breeding power or prepotency of many of 

 these superior individuals may be properly recorded 

 and compared, and that the few very best breeders may 

 be mated together and thus made the basis of the im- 

 proved breed. 



n. Pedigrees representing correlated qualities of 

 intrinsic worth, showing the breed or variety to have 

 high practical value, should be so faithfully and clearly 

 constructed that the animals or plants they relate to 

 may be so accredited for intrinsic merit as to have large 

 commercial importance and be widely used. 



12. Business methods must be used in increasing, 

 in developing to superior form, and in finding profitable 

 markets for improved blood of improved stocks of ani- 

 mals and plants, that they maybe more widely used to 

 supplant poorer forms now used in general production. 

 In other words we need better pedigrees, and we need 

 them 1 better exploited, so that the blood they represent 

 will be in better demand. 



13. The people have here important interests at 

 stake, and should recognize that, through the govern- 

 ment of the nation, state or county, tbey could properly 

 assist with money, laws and official co-operation in the 

 development of better plants and animals. 



14. Systems of comparing or judging animals must 

 be better developed : (a) that fancy points and distin- 

 guishing marks shall have only a minor place; (b) that 

 the qualities in .which special economic values are 



