Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
AMERICAN BREEDERS MEET
Convention Will Be Remarkable for
It's Remarkable Organization.
MEN WHO HAVE DONE THE WORK
Delegates 90 This Gathering VIII he
Those who Have Re-
suits in Plant and AMI
NAL Breeding.

When the American Breeders association
calls It's annual meeting to order in Omaha,
December s, opening a three days session.
the city will shelter the most remarkable
organization OF men who have ever mot
in the city.
Laying all superlatlves aside, the men
composing the American Breeders assOci-
alton are not orly the ones who have
been directly responsible for the govern
ment and states spending millions OF dol
lars experimenting with plant and animal
life. but they are the men who for the
most part, have accomplished the work
they had gone into the work and opened
the fairyland Of science not only to
thousands Of men on the farms, but to
every state legislature and to both houses
OF congress.
The reports of the association comprise
a collection Of papers read at the annual
meetings, which contain more knowledge
Of the laws OF nature IS applied TO heredity
and breeding than the world ever knew
before this remarkable organisation began
It's widespread Investigations into every
form Of life.
Reports given in Omaha next month will
In themselves, give the world systematic.
ally arranged neutrality-suspicious. II you
llthhet WHICH must toA 81 bhNot "a AAf
rules are generally applied, an increase
in produotion-new wealth each year be.
yond comprehension.
What has the association accomplished
II has harnessed the energy OF heredity
60 a remarkable degree-it is making th'
changing energy Of living protoplasm Dc
work which man cannot DO, as electricity
does work faster than man can do, since
Edison harnessed the great force.
what Men who Know Say.
Men who know commerce and those WIFI
have studied the sources Of our nationa
wealth, say Of the so, OOO,O 900, 600 Of ouI
annual production. electricity and breed.
ing may each be credited with $1,000. 900, 900
II is also estimated that each will havl
added another $1,000. 900. 900 annually by tn,
time our production reaches $50. 900, 10000
annually.
They are big figures, but great possibili
ties are before the American Breeders
association and the thousands which tn,
organization is inspiring to do its work
las countless water powers along on
streams are waiting for the electrical
engineer to bring them into the SERVES
of man, says Willet M. Hays, asslstan
secretary OF agriculture, $50 the choices
blood streams nf heredity in the various
species OF plants anu VI dhlhlAlb hIN WhlI
ing for the plant breeder and the anima
breeder to segregate them and make then
available
Willet M, Hays is an Iowa man. 1t wa
Hays who organized the American Breed
ers' association and II has taken him III
teen years to bring It to the great working
body which Is to meet in Omaha, Decembe
8. 3 and 10. to give the world new light
Mr.. Hays himself will be here to lea,
and will be accompanied by william Georg
Of Aurora, ILL.,, vice president OF the or
ganization, and one Of its benefactorH
who will be Joined by an army Of sclen
lists, men who have attained high de
grees and those who are privates in tn
ranks, but working. working TO help throv
plants and animals into new ard improve
modes OF expression.
Hays y Pioneer I'm IL.
Mr.. Hays experience with legislatlv