THE chief ambition of men and of nations is, not merely to maintain present standards, but to aim continually at higher development. The achievement of this ambition lies with the children. Therefore, there is potential value to the State in every baby born a citizen. This potential value will be increased if every child is brought up in healthy conditions, and trained according to its capacity...

In the current study, 3 groups with similar characteristics were formed in Uşak Cattle Breeders Association Research Farm. A total of 21 cows, which third and fourth lactation, selected grouped as including 7 Holstein cows each group. The animals first group given 143 g / kg calcium propionate second give 30 mg trisodium citrate orally for two months. received no additives a control farm where ...

The diagnostic value of skin tests was assessed in 35 patients affected by bird breeder's disease by comparing the results with those obtained in a group of 27 symptomless breeders and 10 symptomless unexposed individuals. Sterilised and diluted serum and lyophilised extracts of faeces prepared from the breeder's own birds were injected intradermally. Skinprick tests using the same materials we...

While animal breeders largely focus on improvement using additive genetic variance, inbreeding and asexual reproduction allow plant breeders to at least partially exploit nonadditive genetic variance as well. We briefly review various approaches used by breeders to exploit dominance and epistatic variance, discuss their constraints and limitations, and examine what (if anything) can be done to ...