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Summary of the Minutes of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Business Meeting of the American Society of Animal Production

The thirty-fourth annual business meeting of the Society was held on November 29, 1941, at 2:00 P.M. in the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois. W. H. Peters, president of the Society, presided.

The Secretary-Treasurer's report was presented showing a net membership of 473. During the year 38 new members were added and 22 memberships were withdrawn or dropped. The Treasurer's report showed a balance of $3,650.54.

A special auditing committee consisting of Arthur L. Anderson and Ralph Bogart reported the accounts of the Treasurer to be accurate in all respects.

The following substitutes for definitions published in the 1940 Record of Proceedings were presented by the Committee on Investigation and with these substitutions the list of definitions was approved by unanimous vote:

Outcross—A cross of relatively unrelated animals within the same breed or variety.

Heterosis (or hybrid vigor)—The superiority over the better parent that is exhibited by the progeny.