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What Are the Possibilities of Genetic Contributions to the Field of Animal Production?

College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin¹

Abstract

Conclusions: As a brief summary of this very inadequate discussion of the subject, it may be said, first, that the use of genetic formulas (in the strict sense of a detailed use of the actual genes involved) will perforce be relatively limited in practical livestock breeding. The great contribution of genetics will be in the general understanding of the laws underlying all breeding operations, making it possible for the breeder to avoid many useless operations and to proceed much more directly to desired ends.

Far from feeling discouraged because of the failure of genetics to do just what was earlier predicted in relation to livestock breeding, I feel we have every reason to believe that its application to practical breeding operations will increase very materially in the near future and that a thorough knowledge of the subject will be considered a necessity in constructive and profitable livestock breeding.

¹ Papers from the Department of Genetics. Agricultural Experiment Station. University of Wisconsin, No. 49. Published with the approval of the Director of the Station.