Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-06-17

The male and female conformity
produce the offspring. They Will
partake of the form and character
5stics of both parents. The first inn
precision would naturally follow that
the dam, nursing the embryo from
conception to maturity the offspring
would inherit the constitution, tenn
per and nervous activity of the moth
err. Experience has proved the con-
verse of this proposition. The sire
has the most influence i'm generation
over the offspring. The superior
physical power of the stallion acts
upon the nervous system of the mare
and predominates i'm the Issue. The
best bred parent oyerrules this latter,
and will have the most influence on
their progeny. From or conslantitu-
tional structure that has become |
fixed and hereditary must come |
down from an irresistible law, as
cure as water will gravitate to the |
OCEAN.
Like produces like, or the like of
an ancestor. Upon the law of kind |
We have the mould to cast new pat |
fern of the original, Beasts can be
bred to hair. birds to feather, be- |
cause color, like unto the Devon OK,
has become hereditary. Amy distinc-
ton or excellence once engrafted up |
on the breed by interviewing from q |
common origin can be preserved to a |
most distant generation. The laws |
of nature regulate the animal king |
dow as well as the material world. |
We must obey the laws of health as
the means to secure the ends of great
physical power. The want of health
or condition of the mare may degen~
crate the get of good stallion.
When the dam has dropped good
colt from one sire, and fails In the
second issue from the same sire, it re-
Eults from the want of condition of
the parents. The same causes, all
other things being equal, would pro-
duce similar effects, Some stations
have become noted for begetting
good colts out of all kinds Of mares.
The reason is obvious-they have the
capacity to stamp their own excel.
lency upon their colts irrespective Of
the dam. Andrew Jackson, Yer
mont Black Hawk, and Hambletoni-
an are remarkable examples i'm the
trotting family. Many mares have
proved to possess this family gift,
and become renowned for superior
colts from Indifferent sires. They
have inherited the exact reach, the
quick circular motion that rapidly
annihilates space, have had the Ca
pacity to transmit to their offspring
without the aiG of the sire. Madam
Temple, the Howard mare, the dam
of Black Bashaw, are illustrious ex.
amples of great trotting action lying
dormant in the members ut family,
like old wine growing better with
nge, and finally rushing out like an
electric flash, to startle their friends
and astonish the world. The brood
mare requires in addition to great
nervous'energy from good breeding q
roony form, firm legs, a sound con.
siitution and good temper. The
qualities that are hereditary ought to
be good through long line of ances.
tors.
Mares fail from weak loiRs, or de-
fective quarters, or, soft, spongy legs.
This kind cannot be safely trusted to
breed unless their family should be
remarkably good where they may
chance to fail. Some stations have
produced good brood mares, hut have
failed to sire anything that APP
preached n first class race. horse.
There are several examples of horses
That have gained their distinction
from The female line. The cau-e that
produces this effect results from the
fact that these good female sires have
the faculty 20 beget roomy mares
with broad loins and wide hips-the
very form TO give room for the colt to
expand and devt iop ia the germ.
Such dam coupled with a goOu
horse would in the next generation
produce winners. The health of the
dam in the stud is OF the Utmost i'm
portance. Ailments may be hereii-
tary and descend to the progeny. 1T
is too much to run the risk of breed
ing from unsound parents. Ordinary
labor will hot produce disease. There
Must be a predisposition in the mare,
inherited from the breed. to train of
or become amiss If she fails under or.
binary circumstances.
Bony engagements. SUCH as curbs,
spavins and ringbOnes, are heredi-
tary defects that destroy the value Of
all breeds. No man IN his senses
can approve of transmitting these
destructive blemisbes from parent to
progeny. Broken wind aud roaring
mlN NltMl uNltIIS boN ScItItu DH lIlt
Psychologist 10 be among hereditary
diseases, but the chances are that
some predisposing cause exists i'm the
breed. Roaring is said to he more
likely to be inherited from the dam
than the sire. The grounds are
taken on the influence of the mare
upon the vital organs of the colt.
The reasoning is not conclusive. The
sheense Of any defect i'm the wind of
both PARENTS would tend 20 eradicate
IL from the breed. The legs have so
often failed that the cause must be
entaiied, The soft spongy bone and
muscle, or little insignificant leg, has
caused the break down of almost
every horse that has trained off the
course. 1t has become a proverb
that enc good body will wear out two
sets OF legs. The weak-limb bed, soft
footed wretches that would not stand
their work, have been put to breed |
ing, and inflicted upon the country O |
set Of cripples, after their own kind. |
The temper of the mare for breed
Ing is OF the utmost consequence. 1t
Is the vital system which she con-
tributes to the colt. Novicious mare
should be suffered TO become the
mother OF vicious family. Neither
should a mare he consigned TO the
stud that has proved too irritable to |
train, unless she was an exception to
the well-kDown good temper of the
family. The vicious. tempered nag
will never make successful racer or
pleasant roadster. They will either
refuse to respsnd to the call or prove
. rusher under excitement, and beat
themselves and break their hackers
The faith i'm private trials, when not
excited, will entail great expense i'm
training, only to disappoint their
friends and hackers when collard by
resolute, good. mpered horses. The
rleasant.tempered horse makes mis-
takes on the road or the race. course. |
The will TO do is accompanied by the
sagacity to perform well. They will |
prove safe companion and faithful |
servant.-Spirit Of the Times.