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Professor Tkueman. The same thing; it wouldn't make 

 a bit of difference. In reciprocal markings you get the same 

 thing. I say that off-hand and I am quite sure it is cor- 

 rect, as I have known it to be true in a great many cases. 

 For instance, for the sweet pea, in the case of the red and 

 white I know it is true, and I am quite positive it is true 

 in this case. There are cases where the reciprocal marking 

 does not work in the same way. The whole question of these 

 gametes is an extremely interesting situation as to the male 

 and female. 'Now, there are certain characteristics which 

 you get right along in the male which you do not get in the 

 female ; that is to say, certain factors that are developed in 

 the male gametes are repelled by the factors for the female, 

 and so you get a whole list of complicated reactions in that 

 way that are extremely interesting. I recommend to any 

 of you who are interested in this problem to read Dr. Pun- 

 nett_, on " Mendelism." As I told you, Mendel discovered 

 these truths, and they call it ^' Mendelism." 



Mr. B. W. Potter. I have sold a great many pedigrees. 

 Now there are two ways of selling animals ; you can sell the 

 pedigree or you can sell the individual. I have always had 

 the idea that if I Avere buying I would rather buy the indi- 

 vidual, but a great many peoi:)le seem to j^i'efer the pedigree 

 to the individual, and of course we have to conform to the 

 wishes of our patrons in that regard. After hearing Pro- 

 fessor Trueman, when he says that you are liable to get a 

 doilble dose of lack of vigor in the cell if you inbreed, the 

 question occurred to me, why wouldn't you be just as liable 

 to get a double dose of vigor in the cell? 



Professor Trueman. You would. 



Mr. Potter. Well, how are you going to tell, then, when 

 you should inbreed ? You are simply in the position that 

 you have to run your chances. We know that the things 

 of this world are run by natural laws, but they are so in- 

 definite that we are all the time feeling that we have to take 

 our chances. Now the chances, as the professor says, are 

 very remote in a calf, and I don't know that we can do any- 

 thing different than what Emerson once said, " Hitch our 



