. Genetics in relation to agriculture. Livestock; Heredity; Variation (Biology); Plant breeding. CONCLUDING REMARKS 609 fact that simultaneous attack may be made in such invcwtigations both against the more obvious and the more obscure questions. Since worlv of this land requires relatively large funds and consecutive attention during many years, it is the kind of research which is eminently suited to the facilities provided by agricultural experiment stations. In the present state of knowledge in genetic enquiry, investigations in heredity to be of value must be planned and directed by carefu
. Genetics in relation to agriculture. Livestock; Heredity; Variation (Biology); Plant breeding. CONCLUDING REMARKS 609 fact that simultaneous attack may be made in such invcwtigations both against the more obvious and the more obscure questions. Since worlv of this land requires relatively large funds and consecutive attention during many years, it is the kind of research which is eminently suited to the facilities provided by agricultural experiment stations. In the present state of knowledge in genetic enquiry, investigations in heredity to be of value must be planned and directed by carefully trained men such as should make up the research staff of experiment stations. Undoubtedly as the need for tliis tj'pe of research becomes felt more strongly, as it inevitably will when agricultural methods become more intensive, special facilities will be provided such as are particularly adapted to genetic research. We cannot well apply genetic principles to their full value before we have definite genetic knowledge. The Service of Genetics.—At the present time genetics can without question render an important service to animal breeding, for excellent. Fig. 238.—Laboratory devoted to genetic research at the University of Illinois. as may be the art of the skilled practical breeder it remains a regrettable fact that it is neither practised nor known by the great body of practical breeders in this country. The great fundamental conception of genetics that heredity is the primary guiding hand in determining the character- istics of the individual, whether physical or mental, has not become a part of the fund of knowledge of the general public. The firmly grounded belief of the geneticist that the phenomena of heredity have a definite knowable basis are still flouted by the less informed among our practical brethren, not only in speech but also in deed, for nothing is more pitiable than the blind hope manifested among some of them that something good may come out of their
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