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Am. Soc. Anim. Prod. 1935:212-214
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Inbreeding Swine for Eight Generations

R. E. Hodgson and R. T. Clark

Minnesota

Abstract

Animal breeders must constantly exercise the utmost care and skill in mating and selecting their animals if they are to maintain high standards of utility and beauty in their herds and flocks. In spite of this care, inferior animals which inherit unsightly, unproductive or even lethal characters are all too common on our farms causing a heavy loss to producers of live stock. There must be a way to eliminate at least some of these undesirable characters and concentrate in the inheritance those factors which make animals more valuable.

In the agronomic field, research workers have made marked progress on a similar problem, by inbreeding, weeding out the undesirable inheritance and finally restoring hybrid vigor by recombining the most promising lines. In 1924 the University of Minnesota set out to try the same plan with swine, the work being done at the Waseca Branch Station.






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