i88 Breeding Plants and Animals. 



State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Colleges, 

 by the biological laboratories, all federated in the new 

 American Breeders' Association, promise to make 

 clearer the theory of breeding. 



(7) Valuable new varieties and breeds originated 

 at public expense are beginning to justify the expen- 

 diture of large sums of Government and State money 

 in breeding experiments, wisely, effectively and eco- 

 nomically conducted, in part in co-operation with pri- 

 vate parties and with associations. 



(8) The organization of wider co-operation in 

 breeding, already exemplified in the Funk Bros. Co., 

 and in the Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, 

 Iowa, and Wisconsin Experiment Stations co-operat- 

 ing in breeding field crops under the auspices of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, should be extended as rapidly as 

 men can be trained and the foundation stocks secured. 



(9) Breeding stations and schools of breeding 

 should be established in connection with several of our 

 agricultural colleges that the full force of modern sci- 

 entific research and educational method may be di- 

 rected into building up our plant and animal forces. 



(10) In addition to the money expended by pri- 

 vate enterprise the possible tens or hundreds of milli- 

 ons of increase in plant and animal products through 

 better blood warrant the expenditure of liberal sums 

 of public funds. While people of wealth are endow- 

 ing institutions for research in natural evolution and 

 other phases of science they should not fail to consider 

 the claims of the science of enforced evolution which 

 has a relation to the improvement as well as the wealth 

 of man. 



(u) " To displace scrub and low-grade stock and 

 scrub and low-grade seeds s and plants with families 

 which have earned the highest places in contests, to 

 produce net value per herd and per acre, is the worthy 

 object which should command money, leadership and 

 co-operative organized effort long continued. 



