Re: Licensed Hybridizers


On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Sharon McAllister wrote:

> Granted, the problem is real.  Too many introductions to readily evaluate, so
> much competition that it's hard for introductions of a new hybridizer to get
> much attention. 
> Now  -- imagine that we wave a magic wand and suddenly have licensing.  Today's
> active hybridizers would undoubtedly be "grandfathered" into the system.
> Because the primary effect would simply be to cut down on the number of
> newcomers, we wouldn't notice much change for quite a while
> Next -- jump ahead 10 years.   I see fewer hybridizers, fewer introductions --
> it would seem to be working.
> Finally  --  look ahead 20 years.  Most of the "grandfathered" senior
> hybridizers are now gone.  Few new ones have entered the system.  I see
> Sharon McAllister (who gave up TB hybridizing in favor of ABs some 15 years ago)
> 
The system would NOT be one to deter new people from hybridizing in their 
backyard, but simply one of education, very similar to what exists for 
the AIS judges now. The crystal ball of the future may also show many 
MORE hybridizers 20 years down the road, all with the teachings of todays 
masters under their belt and they will be determining their own pathways 
down the hybridizing trail. I believe that education is the foundation to 
success. 
Consider this; Give a man a fish and you feed him today, teach a man to fish
and feed him for life.


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Chris Hollinshead e-mail: bu336@torfree.net
Mississauga, Ontario Canada
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