William Earl Dodge Stokes
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 44
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... itary tendency to twins on the mother's side. I have noticed, however, that the first colt of a young well matured mare of five or six years old is generally a stud colt, especially if she catches at first mating; and, if a mare aborts or loses her colt at suckling time, that the next colt is generally a stud colt. I sometimes have thought that the secretions from the cells that nourish the germ cells govern the inclinations, either male or female. When this discovery is once made, we shall have only full male and full females of the I and II combinations born, or close to them; no more "sissies," no more "tom-boys," and our vigor, as a nation, in mental and physical stamina, will be on the ascendency, provided laws are passed preventing the marriage of defectives and diseased persons. CONTRIBUTION OF HORSEMEN TO EUGENICS. To the Trotting Horsemen, more than anyone else, is due the advancement this HORSEMEN AND EUGENICS 21 country is now making in eugenics. It was Governor Lei and Stanford, owner of "Electioneer," and the great Palo Alto Farm, who placed David Starr Jordan at the head of Stanford University, with unlimited funds, to carry out his ideas on breeding and heredity. The trotting horse indutsry has in the United States and Canada, perhaps, a million or more persons financially or otherwise interested in its success. It has six or seven weekly papers entirely devoted to its interests, and in every big city there are one or more daily papers that give a column or part of a column each week to matters relating to the trotting horse. The Grand Circuit consists of about fourteen large tracks. In addition to these, there are over 900 other tracks with their smaller circuits which work independently of each other and of the Grand...