Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-07-20
LIV E STOCK.
BREEDING IN-AND-IN..

breeders ana prOfOu1deSU thinkers engage
in rural pursuits. Many eminent breeder
have illustrated the genealogy of the anims
race, by adopting the practice of in-and-i
breeding-avoiding incestuous connections
with an occasional outcross to prevent th
degenerating effects of consanguinity. HOY
far breeding into relatives can be carrie'
without degenerating, is a subject to be de
termined by its practical effects. All..breed
ers are more or less connected by blood
The thoroughbred is closer inbred than any
other class. He is priced higher, because
no strange blood has been suffered to pol
lutte his escutcheon. Breeding twice in and
once out, gives a strong form Or fixed type
to the breed that they will be likelyt to trans
init as a family inheritance. Breeding to
relatives in the second degree does not APP
pear to degenerate the breed. Some of our
most famous stock horses have been bred to
cousins and kindred, through sire and dam,
to some favorite stallion that has given them
character and patronage, till they have scat
tered their stock broadcast over the land.
Rysdyk's Hambletonian has no less than
four collateral lines, through sire and dam,
running back to Messenger. Two crosses
through his sire, Abdallah, and two more
inbred strains through the grandam, One
Eye, by Hambletonian, son of Messenger.
Lady Suffolk, one of the best trotting mares
that ever appeared in public, had three
crosses to Messenger, reaching that great
progenitor from the third and fourth gener-
ations. Dutchman, the great three-mile
champion, had two strains to Messenger. on
" three removes from that fountain-head of
trotters. General Knox, one of the best
stock horses in this country, has tour strains
running back to Messenger, through sire
and dam-tWo through his dam and gran
dam, by Harris Hambletonian who was by
Bishops H~ambletonian, out of a dam. by
imported Messenger, and two through Yer
mont Hero, whose dam and grandam We're
by Hambletonian or his son. Goldsmith
Maid was inbred to old Abdallah. She was
sired by Alexander's Abdallah, a grandson
OF old Abdallah, out Of a mare by Abdallah,
giving her a double cross to that famous
She is ineomparably the superior
OF any horse of modern times, and stands the
queen of the trotting course. She
has, trotted three heats in 2:2O or better, in
thirteen different starts, q feat unexampled
n the history of trotting. She will proba-
by close her racing career with the present
eason, and will go from the turf in the tri-
llmph Of victory, compelling her ~fleetest as
'irants to trail in her dust. She leaves an .
ndnring record that stands out in bold de-
lalce to all successors. I
Most Of the trotters have come down from :
few choice mares, united with superior I
-allions. The mare that has bred one trot- $
II will breed another to the same horse, TN y
cr the same favorable circumstances. Old I
ate, the dam of Bruno and Brunette, that q
otted together in double harness in 2:25s IL .
as bred ten colts to Hambletonian and two 7
: three to other stations. All that were !
aimed have trotted low down in the TWEEN g
es. The produce of this mare must have g
allied to her owners for colts sold, nearly s.
10000. They have passed through several 81
lnds, and probably now represent in the n
lnds of their present owners a capital cost u
over $4,000. K
ought to profit by these examples. ~
ne same causes produce similar effects. q
le dam of Old Kate was a PAGER, a very &C
od element in the blood of trotters. She pl
ok kindly to trotting, became fast and 4 81
yer on the road. Uniting this mare. Gift m
with perfect action, to Hambletonian. = 10
tural trottel', there We're no extremes to
ercome. Consequently they matched, and
,ir colts came out with the nafnral nasu N.