Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-10-14
Local Breeds.

Thos. MeelIan, Agricultural editor
of the Philadelphia weekly Press.
makes the following sensible renarks.
! It would doubtless be to the Interest
( of Tie inhabitants of different IocaIi-
ties to endeavpr t. improve breeds
themselves, rather than depend so
in"ch on importing from distant
1 places. We would not discourage the
importation of choice stock, but rather
favor nome importation more than
I we have done. We all know how
much climate and circumstances have
dome in changing plants, and i'm suit
lng varieties tD location, but we never
consider That the same law holds good
in animals. Yet there is no reason
why If plants brought from long dis
tances are net suited 10 the soil like
those who have become little accli-
mated, the breeds of animals should
hnt be obedIent 10 the same law. We
tlik of Attorneys and Short Horns,
OF berkshire or Suffolk hogs, or South
down or McTiao sheen. ami imagine
tllat we have the peTfec ion Of the cat
tie Kind. But there is NJ doubt, how
ever much the hand of man has direc-
ted the production of these breeds. the
climate AMI circumstances about them
had is much To do with their organ as
human direction ha;l. We know by
our own experience how much eli
mate and circumstances do for the
human race The Eastern man and
tie Southern, the man nf Pennsvlya-
MIA and the man of Kentucky-that
= those who have been born aud rais-
eft in these places not alike in
many essential particulars. AS time
grows, these, il kept isolated, would
become aS distinct as the Celt or the
SaXon-n1y as wide apart as the Cau-
cl>ian and African now are. We be-
iicve ii would be as rational to try to
improve the E>quimauX by importing
Negroes for that purpose, as it is to
found Il permanently improved race of
cattle 10y getting them from other
ciuntTies the kind and most popular
there. O: course the first seeds of inn
pr"vement come from abroad. The
white man Is superior To the Indian.
but IL Will he as reasonable to try to
keep pure Englishman, Frenchman,
or German for generations on this soil.
as to maintain pure breeds of foreign
origin.
Thus il is that already we find stock
of our own coming into greater pop-
u.afity than any brought from abroad.
ihe Chester county pig in the east,
ana the Magic of the West, have
proved better adapted to their respec-
tive places than any of the most pop
uiar varieties known; and in tile
South, rs we are informed, they find
The black hogs raised there do much
better than any white Importation
from the North.
Attention has not yet been directed
to this matter by those who direct our
agricultural literature, but ii its grow
ing; and we believe in time il will be
found amongst the most popular sub-
lects of agricultural discussion, both
in societies and public prints.
Readers will remember the character
or Rebecca in Scott's "Ivanhoe," who,
TO save her honor, would have leaped
from the castle window. St. Jean. Can
ada, has realized the great noyelistIs
fancy, Young girl of that town having
Jumped from the second story of a mill
10 avoid outrage. She was danperc- -.
injured by the fali, and her a-.o;sa
was arrested. -ssaiant