June, 1921] DIGGING UP FACTS FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE FARMS 19 



"The New Hampshire Experiment Station has vmdertaken a more 

 extensive and better devised set of experiments in sheep breeding than 

 is being undertaken anywhere else in the world; and it seems as certain 

 as anything can be that it will, in time, obtain results that will not only 

 attract the attention and win the approbation of the civilized world, but 

 will revolutionize the methods of improving sheep and making new 

 strains fitted to special needs. These are large claims; I wish in a few 

 words to justify them. . . ." 



Statement of Dr. C. B. Davenport, famous scientist and director of the 

 Station for Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution of Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, New York. 



co-operation of two of the most outstanding scientists in this 

 field in the country — Dr. C. B. Davenport, head of the Carnegie 

 Station of Experimental Evolution, and Dr. F. G. Benedict, 

 director of the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, who has collabo- 



Shearing at the Experiment Station. 

 The inheritance of wool characteristics has been one of the factors studied 



in the sheep-breeding work. 



