Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-09-09
linlS ia regard to the Preservation Of purity of Breeds, and the imprOytnea! of Slssk.

While lad I resided in the same town wilh aii uld physician, who then gave the greater part of his attention to Inc rearing of mules for tie Wes, India market, nnd there vas fact brought to he notice of al who observed closely. that seems to haze very important, bearing upon tue retention of purity oi blood, and the improvements iB the breeds of animals 1t was observed that afier a mare had borne 6 male she never would bFine forth colt of any value, because t woasd pos scss so much the appearance Of mule as to req der Il unsaleabie. Suspeciing this rule might ap- ply as well to other animals, l observed that spotted COW Of ihe native breed produced her first calf, whose sire a dsep rcd, of a similar coiUr to the male pare nt, and for Ese SIX subsequent years. although she was covered by spotted, bFndie, and dark brown bull, yot her calves were all of deep red
 made many similar observations at the time, yet, as they were not placed upon record. do uoi purpose to refer to them except as 1t relates io sheep. lived m a wool growing region. aad we farmers sons prided ourselves upon wearing home spun 'Sheeps gray' for pantaloons; and 10 be able to keep in the fashion II necessary to have al least one black sheep In the flock. If one of the ewes brought us a black lamb for her frSting, we felt quite sare she would continue to do se thc re- malader Of her lliej and fl we already possessed sS many of those weaTers of sable coats as we wished, the unfortunate smalgamationist was in- evltably consigned to the tender mercies of the bHtcAer
 Lfas II u5dt bb tUDhAbt AiAdh " H&L taN1 NQikSt- dered spots upon He sun are only speokS uToa u,y glasses, will present the corroberaiing evi ience 0! several EagiIsb obseretfs Dr. Harvey physician to the Aberdeen Royal Institute, says: "A young ehesnut mare, seyen-eights Arabian belonging to the Earl of Morton, was covered in tsl5 by a qaagga, winch is a species of xild ass from Africa, and marked somewhat after the man her of ze5ya. The mare was covered but once by the dagga, and after a pregnancy of eleven months and four days gave birtk to hybrid, which had distinct marks of the quagga in the shape 0f It's head black bars on the legs, shoulders, 6e. In iSl7, IS and '2I, the same mare, (which had III the meantime passed into the possession of Sir Gore Ouseley) was covered by a very fine black Arabian horse, and produced succesSvely three toals tha bore uneqalyocal marks Of the quagga
 Bes nes the instance already quoted, there IS another similar recorded: 'A mare, belong ing also to Sir Gore 0aseley, covered by a zebra, and gave birth % a striped hybrid. The year following she was covered hy thorough bred horse, and the next succeeding year by another horse Both the foais thus produced were striped; that is, partook of the characteristics of the ze bra.'t
 In both these instances the mare had produced offspring from males of different species from themselves Walker, Baker, and Haller state that they have made similar observations 10 my own in regard 10 the ass and mare.
 MT McGlilIvray gives two instances of SiIniia! results where mares he'd only been covered by 1aaleS of their own species, although of differ efls breed. In the royat stud, at Hampton Court, several mares had bred from the horse Colonel and the next year, although the foals had been got by the horse Aetson, in several of them the re were observed unequiVocal marks Of the horse Colonel, which had been with the mares the pre- yIous year.
 The Earl of Sufied had a colt got by the horse Laurel, that so closely resembied another horse, Camel, that among the dealers II was boldly as- serted thst the col. must have been obtained from Camel, until 1t was aSceTtalned that the dam of the colt had previously borne colt from Camel.
 Similar facts are frequently observed among breeders of cattle; so many, that MT. McGiltvray after aarratng many, says: ' tmong cattle and horses they are of everyday oce uTrence."
 The Rev. Charies McCombie, of Ab,rdeenshire, tells of a neighbor of his who had been twice marrIed and had issue by both husbands, five by the first, and tnree by The second. or the last three, one, girl, bears great resemblance to the first husband, who differed very much ln features. complexion, and general appearance from the sec ond Professor Simpson, Of EdInbuTg. tells of a Scottish woman who had boTne muatio child from a negro man, and aflerward a girl, whose father was white, had many of the characteristics of the negro race.
 Psychologists, while they have admitted the phenomena have been divided lu Ihcir modes of eXpianng inc laws Shat govern them; some sup posing ihat an impression was made upon the i'm aglnauon Of The mother, producing permanent result, while others deny the possibility oi ssSi cause The more probable reason to me IS this: The offspring and the mother are lntimatey ' connected by the funls. tnavel str.ng,) that the same blood cifcutaieS throagh the feIns Of each, and thas the progeny of the first impsegnatIons produces a change in Inc whole oIgan,sns af the mother, aSSiTnang i, in q degree to the male pa. rent II ths be the true explanation, thus dc husband and wife become, literally, " bone ul one bone and 1esh Of one hesh'' and n thsS EaaaHeI we can account for the failure ol many persons m thetf endeavor to obtatn animals of perfectly pure bIeed Let tAem look 10 II that ihe female Aas not her blood tainied by breeding with animals l0f b different eiass, previous 10 her being coupled win those whose peculiar characteristics they wish to perpetuatc. c. II. CLEVELAND.
 Haterbry. Vt. March ie. 1851.