The southern sentinel., 1886-01-22
UNDERGRADUATES.
why Young Breeders Should Go Throues
q Regular Course of Research.

why Young Breeders should Go ThroueS
. Regular Course of Research.
1t is well that the young breeder, On
the still younger man who has not vet
entered upon the pleasures and anxieties
of stock-breeding, but whose intention
is to make that pursuit the business Of
his life, should lay out for himself q
course of instruction, by means of visits
to established breeders, and intelligeut
inspection of their studs, herds or fiocks.
as the case may be. according to the
line selected by the beginner. or would.
be beginner. Such q course has been
already recommended to the rising gen.
Grafton of stock-breeders. and the ad.
vice, which may be here repeated. te
make the best examples the princina
study, has been offered.
The object of this recurrence to the
subject is to extend the suggestion by
adding the remark that the best exam.
pies for study are found in those ami
mails, or collections, or groups of ami.
mails, which make the best impress upon
the inferior stock of the country. Take
cattle, by way of illustration. One herd
NAV consist wholly of splendid looking
animals, kept in high condition, and
mostly tit for exhibition. Another herd.
not so bloomy in condition, may still
possess the highest merit in the rough,
and want only a system of higher and.
perhaps. less healthy keeping. to enable
any one of its average animals to bear
comparison with an average specimen
of the other herd The real superiority
of either herd over the other, consists
not in appearance only. but in heredi
tary power for good. when influence il
put to the test by crOss-breeding and by
grading up. The best herd for the
country is that which can, in the short
est time, that is to say, in the smallea
number of crosses, produce cross-bred
or grade animals of the most useful sort
The study, therefore, beginning with
the herds. fiocks, ETC., of highest repu-
tation, should be extended to the under.
currents of breeding. to discover tha
comparative degrees of influence, which
various breeds, and various strains a.
blood in each breed. have upon the str -
of the country in general. Constitutions
strength, fecundity, and some other not
externally evident properties, claim con
sideration, rs we'll as those properties ot
which the butcher. the grazier or the
1airyman takes first notice.
For q fair inquiry, the character o.
the foundation-stock, the climate, land,
management, and great many other
circumstances, must be taken into &C.
H.xt kh1- "a fn1 xrf rsNrr
ton. thrown out as hints, so that the
student may avoid the error of making
hasty conclusions from sight only, with.
out full investigation. Among raw b.
ginners, who can not possibly possess
more than superficial knowledge (what-
ever they may acquire in the course a
wears to come), we have found some a
the most positive and most pugnacious-
partisans Of . breed or group. while older
men, whose convictions have the strength
of deep setting upon foundations labori-
ously dug and laid by the men them-
selves, are often much more guarded in
their advocacy of whatsoever breed or
group they may have finally adopted;
Because they have looked upon more
than one side Of each question, and they
well know, and can afford to allow all
that may be said against their choice,
and in favor of all that they have delib-
erately rejected. They have summed up
the evidence and can defend their judg-
ment upon it
If unprejudiced inspection of the bes,
stocks be undertaken In connection with
equally unbiased examination of Tho
ramifyin4 influence of those stocks,