Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-08-10
LIV { STOCK.
SUGGESTIONS ABOUT BREEDING.

erous health, cOnstitutlonally especially IL
the generative ogans, are conditions Of fer
tility.
2. In the maintenance and improvement
of breed, the truth that "like produces
like" that the reproductive germ will stamp
upon the animal developed from the char.
acters Of the parent organism, is the back
bone of success.
3. We can in a great degree, at will, pro-
duce variations and improvements in breeds;
by abundant feeding, a mild and salubrious
climate. a rich and healthy soil, moderate
use, education, stimulation or selection OF
: desirable qualities; by disease or rejection
OF undesirable characters and properties by
soliciting the weight of Imagination in our
favor; by allowing the breeding animals to
mix only with those of the stamp desired !;
by crossing less improved breeds systemat-
ically with males of a better race, and by
crossing animals faulty or deficient in some
particular point with others in which this
point is developed in success.
4. The herding of pregnant high class an
imals with low bred ones, and the resulting
attachments between the two races are to be
especially avoided, as occasionally affecting
the progeny in~juriously strong impressions
from a new or unusual condition of sur
rounding objects are to be equally guarded
against.
8. If a valuable female is allowed to breed
to an inferior male, she cannot be relied up
on to produce pure bred animals for several
succeeding pregnancies. Through a strong
and retained impression, through the alb
sorption into the system of living particles
(germinal matter) from the fGtus, or through
some influence during pregnancy on the ova,
then being most actively developed, the
good or bad features Of the first sire are per-
p~etuated in the progeny Of succeeding ones.
6. All breeds show a tendency to "breed
back" or to produce offspring bearing the
marks of their less improved and compare
lively valueless ancestors hence, individu-
ais of this kline must be rejected from the
best breeds if we wonld maintain their ex-
c~ellence.
Z. Certain races and individuals have their
characters more fixed, and will transmit and
perpetuate them in greater proportion than
others with which they may be crossed. If
their qualities are desirable, they prove
highly valuable in raising other stock of
greater excellence If undesirable, they will
depreciate the value of stock crossed for
many generations. That fixity of type, how
ever, is above all, a characteristic of those
which have been carefully selected and bred
up to q certain standard for many genera
tons, SO that in our best, longest established
and most esteemed breeds we have a most
valuable legacy LETT us by the successful
of the past with which we may
mould our inferior races almost al. will.
8. While breeding continuously from the
nearest relations tends to a weakened con-
stitution, andthc agggravation of any faint in
he blood to sterility, these may be avoid
ID by infusing at intervals fresh blood of the
same family which.has been bred apart from
his branch of it for several generations.
Moreover, the highest excellence is some
lines attained only by breeding very close
or a time. !.
). Diseased OR mutilated aniinals are gem
rally to be discarded from breeding. Mu-
4lations resulting from disease existing dur
ng pregnancy, and disease with a constitu- $
ional morbid faint are, above all, to be 9
treaded as transmissible.-Pyof. James Lau. Q
IS IT "sHENANEGAN =, 5
Ia the excellent sssheep Talks. Z. An O
lerson is giving us in the Rural World, in 6
vhicfi ne takes 4 Breeder 2 kindly to task i
some assertions in a former number. The t