Show keeping up P wi chiv en e SC er v e C science service W NU co hybrid corn met method od might produce better farm animals fast east lansing mich breeding methods that have greatly improved the per acre yield of corn will presently be applied to farm animals with equally beneficial results secretary of agriculture wallace prophesied here in the memorial bec lecture delivered at michigan state college secretary wallace himself pioneered the large scale application of Men dellan principles to corn breeding in a day when corn judging was based solely on the production of big handsome individual ears regardless ot of yield d per acre though he was only a young man he persisted in the face of skepticism on the part of his seniors in producing inbred strains of corn genetically pure for the particular high yielding qualities he desired and then crossing them with other pure lines this obtained the double advantage of combining the specifically desired qualities and at the same time endowing the offspring with the biological quality still not well understood known as hybrid vigor applied to animals breeding of farm animals such as dairy cattle egg laying chickens and meat animals lags tar far behind corn breeding secretary wallace declared selecting breeding stock on the basis of show ring points is on a level with the old fashioned methods of corn judging by individual ears performance tests test s based on egg laying and butterfat pr prodoc duc botter tion records are somewhat better but are still tar far short of certa certainty anty in selection and transmission of desirable qualities to offspring what Is really needed the speaker hammered home is the selection of particular desirable qualities the fixing of these to in pure lines of sires and dams and the uniting of these pure lines into high production offspring by crossing it will be the hybrid corn technique applied to animals carrying of this pure line method of 0 breeding into application in human eugenics did not appeal to secretary wallace as practicable negative eugenics the attempted elimination of undesirable traits by sterilization programs he considers of dubious workability similar techniques failed when applied in early corn breeding he pointed out antarctic continent was discovered by americans philadelphia the antarctic c continent once considered worthless but now the subject of international competition of claims and counter claims was first sighted by an american boy hardly out of his teens in command of a 2 tiny boat that would hardly be considered sate safe on a landlocked lake this occurred on november 18 1820 and the discoverer was capt nathaniel B palmer in the 47 foot sloop hero of 45 tons register at the meeting of the american philosophical society here prof william H hobbs of the university of michigan told of discovering an old map in the collection of yale university that definitely proves the claim of american priority in discovery in the antarctic ocean as against the contention that a british commander was the discoverer ot of antarctica entries in the heros logbook now in the library of congress confirm the data given by the map it was not until 1832 12 ears after palmers halmers Pal mers discovery that the coast was sighted by the british expedition which gave it the name by which it is still called on pres e ent nt day maps graham land camels formerly roamed plains of north america washington camels and came animals that once roamed the west when it was really wild and woolly were described to the national academy of sciences by prof william berryman scott ot of princeton university camels actually originated tn in north america some of the them rn migrated to asia others to south america where their descendants s still till survive as the llamas and al P pacas acas but in old days the camel population ot of north america was far richer and more mora varied than the present depleted assortment in the southern continent the last one was a creature now called camelous Camo Cam lops whose bones are found aund in the la brea tar pits near los angeles this animal may have survived until a human population had become well established on this continent feats of telepathy explained by highly trained perception L london 0 n d 0 n science has probed the apparent telepathic powers of a well known vaudeville performer marion and found that there is nothing occult or supernatural about them neither are they due to extrasensory extra sensory perception instead they are due to supernormal development of the ordinary power of perception A preliminary report ot of the investigation by S G has been made public by the university ot of london council for psychical investigation marion whose real name is josef kraus had two especially significant accomplishments one was the finding of a hidden object there was absolutely no trickery to this mr reports and it was done without any physical contact with anyone in the room it was due mr found to marions unusually sharp observation of the footsteps of a person walking behind him who knew where the object was it if all the audience was seated marions ability to find the hidden object depended on his keen perception ot of involuntary head movements and changes of facial expression ex pres slon how flow he recognized cards the other unusual accomplishment of this performer was his ability to recognize any card he held in his hand ills his skill at this was unknown w n to marion himself until mr S oa I 1 tried it marion thought it was wa s due to clairvoyance but after mr seals experiments it could be accounted for on the ground that marions acuteness of touch and his general alertness to sense stimuli are exceptional these findings do ao more than merely dispose of some claims to tile the power of clairvoyance and telepathy comments the editor of the english medical journal the lancet they show how highly perception may be developed the keen perceptive powers of marion are of the order of those possessed by the great physicians of earlier days the medical editor suggests these men who practiced before the development of X rays and laboratory tests had to rely almost entirely on their senses and their keen powers of perception in order to diagnose a case and foretell its probable out come gorillas and hyenas are sufferers from arthritis philadelphia grandpa gorilla has his bad days with no less than his human nth degree cousins hyenas have it too presumably they dont laugh then it seems to be the same kind of rheumatism arthritis most common and most painful in human beings occurrence of arthritis in wild animals emals was described by prof her bert fox of the university of pennsylvania to the american philosophical society professor fox as pathologist to the philadelphia zoological society has had ample opportunity to diagnose the disease in many living animals he has also examined skeletons in several museums total number of animals examined was 1749 of which 77 proved to be definitely arthritic occurrence of the malady among animals appears to be as little governed by rules as it Is among us suffering humans it Is not correlated with climate location food focal infections or kind of animal it was most easily detected as an affliction of the spine but was also found in other parts of the skeleton animal families afflicted with arthritis include cat cow deer bear hyena baboons babions and the anthropoid apes it was not found among certain notably the dog group rodents and bats seem likewise to be immune bends in rails caused by high speed of trains chicago higher railroad train speeds particularly of freight trains aad a ia causing extensive damage to railroad tracks A A miller maintenance of way engineer for the missouri pacific railroad told the western railway club here irregular kinks and bends in the track with consequent rough riding for passengers or sufficient damage as to necessitate renewal of truck have occurred to an increased extent during recent years as a result of the greater strain imposed on the track by 1 more rapidly moving locomotives motives s and cars he be declared on the basis of reports from railroads r ail roads throughout the country principal blame for the damage he indicated rests on the locomotives copper pays the freight copper CUB cliff ont copper pays the freight and all the gold I 1 is s gravy is more than a miners catch phrase here where recovery of gold silver platinum palladium tellurium and selenium during the necessary refining of 0 copper not only has increased the value of the finished product copper but brings added income from the sali sale ot of by product rare metals |