The Agricultural Journal of India March 1924

The idea of heredity of acquired characteristics as if the development (modification) of certain parts of the body and their activity (performances) acquired during the individual lives of the animals under the influence of circumstances via the one or other course is transmitted on the germ cells respectively the prevailing susceptibility to heredity is not compatible with the theory mentio [...] Further what is known so far concerning mutation shows us again the extraordinary importance of the single individual in selection and the necessity of determining its breeding value by means of the"INTERNATIONAL cdkcattss ON CATTLE BREEDING 121 progeny ; there is also however the necessity of fixing in figures the build of body and the performances of the animals in the succession of genera [...] A decisive influence upon the entire forming of the meanings and general effective mode of thought in breeding has been the chief consequence of the results of the new doctrine of heredity and especially of the two fundamental views of the Mendel doctrine. [...] Other measures : the regulation of the import and export of cattle protective rights supervision of the cattle trade and markets effective policy regarding prices Government cattle insurance the furnishing of credit in accordance with the needs of the times support for the great important activities throughout the whole sphere of cattle breeding. [...] With regard to the second suggested method of check it may be noted that up to the third week of October the attack of the bollworm was chiefly on the young growing shoots of the plant either on the petioles of the leaves or on the flower-buds.