8o Breeding Plants_ and Animals. 



1902, endorsed the plan of organization to include 

 both animal and plant breeders. This society will pro- 

 vide a place for the exchange of views on the principles 

 of breeding. It will be such a general organization 

 that the practical man will be there to give his point of 

 view, and the scientific man will there find an ap- 

 preciative audience ready to put into use any really 

 practical discoveries he may work out. It will be o 

 especial value also in promoting experimental research 

 in breeding and in inducing deeper study and more 

 thorough preparation for their business on the part of 

 breeders, herd-book managers and teachers of breeding. 

 The suggestions in the next few articles will have 

 running through them a general plan, i. e., that of co- 

 operation among breeders, breeders' associations, coun- 

 ties, states and the general government in bringing 

 about a more rapid evolution of our animal types. The 

 writer has long had these plans in mind, but wished 

 before publicly advocating them that he might make 

 or see practical demonstrations in co-operation in 

 animal breeding as well as in plant breeding. The re- 

 sults from organizing co-operation in plant breeding 

 in Minnnesota and surrounding states serve as a partial 

 basis for discussing what now appears the somewhat 

 more difficult but no less important co-operatiom in 

 animal breeding. 



