1 58 Breeding Plants and Animals. 



hybridizing related species of animals. Prof. Cossar 

 Ewart's work near Edinburgh, Scotland, with zebra- 

 horse hybrids, Mr. Goodknight at Texas, Tex., with 

 buffalo-cattle hybrids, which he calls catalo, are ex- 

 amples. Mr. Goodknight has a catalo bull seven-eighths 

 Jersey which he wishes some interested institution or 

 person would use on Jersey cows to study the effect of 

 a small portion of this blood in a milk strain. 



Mr. J. J. Hill, of St. Paul, has started a splendid 

 line of investigations with cattle-buffalo hybrids on his 

 farm near St. Paul, Minn. 



These experiments are of interest in determining 

 whether different species will produce fertile and 

 vigorous hybrids, but they are not in the realm of the 

 work of the practical breeder. His life is too short, 

 his interest too fleeting. But the State or the Nation, 

 representing the interests of the race, "will live after 

 we are a long time dead." It is more than probable 

 the experience already at hand from animal-breeding 

 and especially from plant-breeding would enable men 

 to devise problems and methods which would be well 

 worth the while for the State or National Government 

 to follow r . The United States produces nearly two bill- 

 ions of dollars worth of animal products annually. 

 There is certainly a profit on this product of 10 per 

 cent, or $200,000,000. One part in 10,000, one-one- 

 hundred of i per cent of the total production is 

 $200,000. The use of this sum, or even ten times this 

 sum, would be justifiable if it would add another 10 

 per cent to the profits. In fact, there is now, doubtless, 

 more than $200,000,000 spent annually by private 

 persons in animal breeding. But a large part of this 

 experimenting is done in a poor way and tihe results are 

 relatively meager, both to the individual conducting the 

 experiment and to the world at large. National, State 

 and co-operative organizations could better conduct the 

 experiments. 



The practical grower of pedigreed stock and the 

 producer of live stock products want live stock blood 



