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sic and artistic qualities which must all be combined, 

 correlated, to make up general values. 



Having thus given a method of breeding wheat 

 somewhat in detail, very brief statements in future 

 articles will suffice to give methods in use in the 

 Minnesota Experiment Station in breeding other field 

 crops. Interesting and apparently substantial progress- 

 is being made with the other cereals, including corn and 

 flax, and with a number of grasses, clovers and other 

 forage and root crops. The general features common 

 to plant and animal breeding, and some of the lessons 

 cad) can teach the other will become more apparent 

 as the discussion of breeding horses, cattle, sheep, 

 swine, poultry and pet stock proceeds. The value of 

 selecting the best breeders from among immense num- 

 bers, the importance of statistical pedigrees as aids in 

 improvement along economic lines, the necessity of 

 correlating many qualities into varieties and breeds 

 for general values, the danger while breeding for other 

 important points, of neglecting, to breed for disease 

 resistance and strong fecundity, and the commercial 

 value of tabulated statistics of intrinsic breeding values 

 as an aid in securing long prices for breeding animals, 

 are among the general subjects to be especially con- 

 sidered. 



Some general suggestions will be made as to co- 

 operative organizations in counties or groups of coun- 

 ties to press forward animal breeding which will be 

 sufrjcienti) novel, it is hoped, to stimulate discussion. 



