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to the food, to the method of breeding pursued, to 

 management and climate, and which come out victor- 

 ious in the tests through a long series of years, will 

 have guaranteed that they will not go to pieces in the 

 future. Our newly-selected wheats, which excel in the 

 nursery for four years, in field plot tests for four years 

 and in the farmers' fields for two years, in order to 

 earn their performance pedigrees of superiority are not 

 liable to degenerate as soon as they are. disseminated. 

 Likewise our new hybrid wheats which are given free 

 rein for three years to pass through their first stage for 

 variation and then subjected to lo-year tests, the same 

 as mentioned for selected wheats, are not likely to sow 

 moix youthful wild oats when they are used by_ the 

 farmer to earn him a dollar or two additional per acre. 

 Mendel's law gives renewed confidence that dominant 

 characters, once they gain the ascendency, are perman- 

 ently dominant. 



The blood of a superior boar or sow may be mul- 

 tiplied with such astonishing rapidity that once value 

 is given by acceptable pedigrees showing peculiar 

 breeding efficiency the blood of a few of the best ani- 

 mals may soon have full sway in a herd or in all the 

 herds of an association and will soon be widely influen- 

 tial throughout the entire breed. It is not a difficult 

 task- to add 10 per cent to the value of a State's stock 

 of wheat or flax. Twenty farmers could produce a 

 new race of valuable hogs in much shorter time than 

 they can bring their boys from birth to manly matur- 

 ity and with no more strenuous attention to duty nor 

 larger exercise of patience. Plans, organizations, co- 

 operation, capital and energetic attention to details are 

 necessary in all lines of human endeavor. Why leave 

 all the merging of interests of those who deal with the 



farmers ? 



It is quite probable that discussion, and especially 

 putting them to the test of use, would show serious 

 faults with the plans here suggested. The writer hopes 



to at least arouse breeders from their lethargy and to 



