Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-09-27

dQce was tile WOTlu-ld1Iieu SoLhCt' oH@
the best breeding COWS in Sir c. kniglltaeyAs
herd (Restlessb was the result of still more
continuous in-amd-in breeding. will state
a part Of the pedigree The bull favorite
was put to his own daughter, and tasen to
his own granddaughter, and so on to the
produce of his produce in regular Succession
for six generations. The cow which was
the result of the sixth inter-breeding:- was
then put to the bull Wellington, deeply;in-
ter-bred OH the side of both sire and dam ia
the blood of Favorite, and the produce was
the COW Clarissa. an admirable animal and
the mother of Restless. Mr. Bates' whose
Shorthorns We're n~everieXcesled lf eal;iled)
in England. put sireito daughter and grand
daughter, son to- dam and grand dam, and
brother to sisteg, uindiffcIently, his rule be-
lag always to put the best animals togeth-
Ell, regardless of any affinity of %blood,1as A..
B. Allen Informs me he directly declared to
him, and indeed, as his recorded practice, in
the Herd Book ftIly proves And now if
we we remember that the bull sFayoritel was
used ia this herd for sixteen consecutive
wears. and that since then other breeders
have followed Mr.. Ceilings example. even
to this fine, we must acknowledge the great
Influence Of the final success or failure on
the decision of our question. And what is
the result? Only four years ago, eighty
nine years after CoolIing made his beginning,
We saw an animal Of this breed sell 1T pub
lie sale for breeding purposes for the M
,a,,, ,,,,, 0f eFnrfy tIn,coRI 1o11orS aIiI \
two others for over thirty thousand each!
I" Each of the improved breeds of sheep
might be cited as an example Of the happy
effects of in-and-in Breeding but | viii, go
further than this, and give a few eases
where in-breeding has been practiced in par
Itcllar locks, without interruption, for. a re-
markable length of tina.o4Colin mentions
the flock of Rambouillet. which was bred
closely in-and-in for SO, gcnerations-as
many as could be expected in the human
species, he says, in two. thousand years
consequently, if it was Il hurttul method of
breeding. such effects ought to have mani
tested themselves. "'The Messrs. Brown,
during so years, have never infused fresh
blood in their excellent flock Of Leicesters;
and in France. the 'Naz flock has been bred
for 60 years without the Introduction of Il
single strange ram. ~ !. (Darwin.) "Mr
Chaiinbcrlainl's silesia,1s have not received
any cross, or amy fresh bloodtfro either of
the orighlal f%a,nilies, within half a century
yet they are so per cent. larger than the
sheep they originated from, and are entire
ly healthy. II Mr.. Hammond's2 Infantados
present ii still stronger c;isea' Theyawere
bred in-and-in 4hy Col. Hunrphreys@up to
the period Of MR. 1Atwood's purchase; Mr..
Atwood bred iiisentire focktfrom one eve,
andncyer ,~usedia1y but pure Humphreys
rams; Mr.. Hammond has purchased the
same blood entirely ,2intact444and thus after
being drawn bcNpllll all doubt from an un7
mixed Spanislu sabalia, they have been bred
in-and-in, in the Emitted Suites, for upwards
of 60 years. 'o3( Randalh1 foe51 8e'f gaaf
wisl, now to call attention to the ftolrlmnrap-.
ton of the flock Of Mancllamp Merinos, one
of.the most remarkable cases Of success, by
combining ih-annd-in breeding Tor and sseeleac-
tion-,a case where the closest in--and-in
breeding for many years not only did, not
cause degeneration o.. disease but where
there followed continual Improvement in
the form and constitution. This variety Of
sheep originated III 1928 by the birth, Of a
single 'silkyy--wooled ram lamb III lie flock of
NJ. Graux. Aud now what was the charaacc--
ter of Granx's flock? Randall tried to, ere
ate an impression, that this siIky-woolel
lamb was :. atmongrel between. the Merino
aud some lon n...xanlni u.,rint,: !, iplaeieal