Journal of Heredity

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Abstract The Frank A. Spragg Memorial Lectures were established at Michigan State College to honor a distinguished plant breeder who, during eighteen years at East Lansing, made many contributions to American Agriculture. Rosen rye and Worthy oats are two of the many important varieties originated by Dr. Spragg. The lectures are issued in booklet form by the Department of Farm Crops of Michigan State College. The 1938 lecture is noteworthy because it carries forward the idea of “greater boldness in experiment” which Secretary Wallace stressed as a vital need in the 1936–7“Genetic Yearbooks.”Here he speculates with realistic boldness on ways whereby corn genetics may fertilize the formal and perhaps somewhat genetically sterile concept of “pure breeding” in livestock. The closed studbook has often meant only “purebred scrubs”; but closed herds, even though their members might win no show-ring prizes, may be the basis of “controlled heterozygosis, ” which will give us “crossed hogs” and “crossed cows” as vigorous, uniform and productive in their way as the best of the maize hybrids which are today sweeping the Corn Belt. On the human side, Secretary Wallace effectively debunks the “biological bedtime stories” of Aryan mythology, and he has a heartening message for eugenic thinking in a democracy. Even though maize teaches us that the genetic heritage cannot be ignored, it gives us little hope of “saving the race”by attempting to control human reproduction by legislation or decree.—Ed. This content is only available as a PDF. © Oxford University Press

GORDON, C. D.

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BOWDEN, WRAY M.; WHITE, ORLAND E.

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STODDARD, S. EDMUND

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BERRY, R., O.

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Article PDF first page preview Close This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes *Report of part of a cooperative project of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Biology Department of the School of Arts and Science, and Genetics Department of the School of Agriculture, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Colbege Station, Texas. © Oxford University Press

PINCUS, J. W.

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LANDAUER, W.

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