The Red Cloud chief., 1877-03-01

or have a hospital in which they can b
put, and fed and medicated separately
from the balance; and keep them there
till they become thrifty. We have no
doubt that hundreds Of thousands Of
hogs that have died the past season
might have been saved il q few sickly
scrawny, ailing hogs had been killed
before they contaminated the rest.
The very moment a farmer discovers
anything the matter with a pig or a hog
on his premises. he should kill il or sep
arate it from the herd. II this practice
is followed. there will be very little loss
by hog cholera, 80 called, or any other
disease. Whatever the disease is that
has carried of our hogs. it is as conta-
geOus as the measles or smallpox, and
the very first symptoms Of anything
wrong with a single animal, should in
duce the farmer to use the greatest Wig
lance to keep unhealthy hogs away
from the balance of the herd.
S'hsp Aek
In the wool growing districts Of South
America 1t is no uncommon thing for
dogs TO take almost the entire care Of
sheep. They will often tend a flock.
that is a mile or two away from n
habitatiOns. The method Of education
consists in separating the puppy while
very young from the bitch and in keep
ing him away from children and from
other dogs. A eve Is held three IT four
times a day for the little creatures To
suck, and he is allowed a nest of wool
TO sleep In. When a few months old he
is castrated, from which time there il
little disposition to associate with his
kind. In times of danger N of these
dogs will bark and the sheep will gather
round him. He will leave the flock
two or three times a day TO 90 to the
house for meat. AT these times he is
liable to be set upon by other dogs, but
he will deyOur his food quickly, or
it in his mouth, will run back To
his woolly associates, who will gather
round him. If wild dogs pursue him
they will run away when they see him
surrounded by sheep, perhaps from a
confused notion thatthe harmless sheep
afford him aid; such, at least, is
opinion of intelligent travellers and
n%aturalists. Wild dogs know that NUT
ton is good eating, and a flock with
which there is no dog will run at their
approach, but when they see a flock
standing resOlutely around a dog, they
get the idea that it is danger
Gus to 60 near them. Dogs in South
America are taught to bring sheep to
the field when a horn is blown, and are
v 9 trained to bring them in without
a signal on the going down of the sun.
Principles of Breeding.
We often hear people talk as if it
were an easy matter to originate a new
race of domestic animals by taking a
cross between two races or breeds. Not |
many years ago it was often maintained
hat We ought to build up an American
breed of cattle in this way. by many
intelligent farmers, who supposed they |
knew what they. were talking about.
1t ought always to be kept in mind that
races have q tixity of type which is
from parent to offspring,
and this offspring so closely resembles
The parents, when they both are of the
nHe race that no n familiar or con-
versaD', with that particular race would
sver hlistake it as belonging to another
different race. And yet the offspring
will not ence in ten thousand times be
precisely like either of the parents.
The individual will vary, although at
he same time he may be a perfect
specimen of the race. No short horn
breeder would for a moment dispute the
of blood" in Starlight End: nei-
her would he dispute it in New Years
Day, E. Hikim, or Crusader. Those
PULLS had all and each of them the physi-
al characteristics of the thoroughbred
but ut the same time no
'wO of them were precisely alike-they
we're true to the race, but varied as in
lividuals.
Any two races will be prolific with
.ach other, but a third or new race can
lot be formed from two old ones or two
in existence; this has been tried
repeatedly and never yet succeeded; the
progeny will revert to one or both the
types of races. All that can be
lone in the shape of improvements is
o develop aptitudes, and have these
SO well developed ina series of
generations that they will belong to
nd become hereditary as transmissable
The hereditary transmission
f form is one thing and belongs to race,
nd the transmission of qualities is an
Their thing and belongs to intelligent
reeding and care. /
These difficulties ought not to dis
outrage us from constant effort for the
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