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CONTENTS.—Year in agriculture, report of Secretary of Agriculture to President of United States, Washington, Dec. 10, 1935.—Better plants and animals, foreword and summary, survey of superior germ plasm; [by Gove Hambidge and E. N. Bressman].—Glossary of genetic terms; compiled from glossary prepared by American Genetic Association.—Heredity under microscope; by J. H. Kempton.—Unusual possibilities in breeding, some results that are worth while or that seem promising.—Improvement in wheat [with list of literature cited]; by J. Allen Clark.—Problems and results in barley breeding; by H. V. Harlan and M. L. Martini.—Superior germ plasm in oats; by T. R. Stanton.—Improvement in rice; by Jenkin W. Jones.—Corn improvement; by Merle T. Jenkins.—Sorghum improvement; by John H. Martin.—Sugarcane, its origin and improvement [with list of literature cited]; by E. W. Brandes and G. B. Sartoris.—Improvement of sugar beet [with list of literature cited]; by G. H. Coons.—Plant breeding and cotton industry; by J. O. Ware.—Improvement in flax [with list of literature cited]; by A. C. Dillman.—Superior germ plasm in tobacco [with list of References on history, breeding, and genetics]; by W. W. Garner, H. A. Allard, and E. E. Clayton.—Livestock breeding at the crossroads, foreword on general results of survey of germ plasm in beef cattle, dual-purpose cattle, sheep, swine, and horses.—Beef and dual-purpose cattle breeding [with Some selected references on beef-cattle breeding]; by W. H. Black.—Swine, some current breeding problems; by H. C. McPhee and O. G. Hankins.—Breeding problems with sheep [with Some selected references on sheep and wool]; by H. C. McPhee and D. A. Spencer.—Improving horses and mules [with list of literature cited]; by J. O. Williams and William Jackson.—Superior breeding stock in poultry [with list of References on poultry breeding and genetics]; by Morley A. Jull.—Superior germ plasm in dairy herds [with list of literature cited]; by R. R. Graves and M. H. Fohrman.—Statistics.—Index.
NOTE.—For some time past the Yearbook has presented brief summaries of miscellaneous new developments in agriculture. This year it is devoted to exploring a single subject, the creative development of new forms of life through plant and animal breeding. The usual tables of summarized or detailed statistics, previously appearing in the Yearbook, appear this year in a separate volume entitled, Agricultural statistics, 1936, for which see above.
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