The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-09-28
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
s!sIhe following address was delivered
.sssslion. n. A Arnold before the farm
yesterday:
SCIENCE OF BREEDING.

institute yesterday:
SCIENCE OF BREEDING.
sEheory may be correct or false, but
sSclence is ascertained truth. When
applied, it the theory proves correct
SitiBsthen entitled to the cognomen OF
SScience.
he theory and practice in breeding
developed the fact that certain
spractices and rules produce certain
Sg5spegific results. With these ascer.
tanned truths we have the science of
BISsding.
peculatlye minds have always
clatmed that education will change
character; but experience proves that
good breed is safer with Il defective
eaDcation, rather than a bad breed
Hlthsa good education.
s1iverslty of mind, character, in.
stMcts, and PHYSICAL proportions come
tuAs, and the brute creation by the
llatNTal law of entailment, and .sthe
afnNof the parents are visited on the
%chlldren unto the third and fourth
g66erations.
is a fine and philanthropic theory
TINT would educate the colored race
uEto the mental status of the Cau-
casian. but facts are stubborn things
and educate as we will, and theorize
asswe may, blood determines every
thing, and no manner of training can
compensate for defective breeding OF
badblood. The principal that like
begets like is universal and applies to
alMhat procreate their species. The
intelligent application of this princi-
pl8is the true science of breeding
that every stock raiser should appre.
ciAke in order to insure success, and
sitAresults are as certain as that two
ard two make four in the science OF
IsnuMbers. Every character and quail
I.itySin the animal is hereditary. It's
derived from some ancestor near OF
far related: it was born with it and is
innts blood to grace and make useful
sOrsto torment and deface.
1.-The more there is of the good blood
The less the opportunity there is for
the bad blood to crop out. Man is SC
far as the laws of breeding are con
earned not exempt from these laws
Shesis only an animal aud so far as
Applicable we may learn some valua-
gh1S lessons in breeding domestic ami.
A1als.
Herein there is some opportunity
Epr the use of good Judgment which
| Ehen proved by results afford a salts
Melton not found in any other branch
Bfarming. A business that de.
ss5ands no brains affords us little sat
3ES|action. am farmer; [ am not
6sagriculturist; L live on the farm,
md live from the farm; l find more
Measure in raising stock than in
Missing crops.
Any defect in animals may
sS remedied by judicious
teedlng, and as heretofore remarked
he good points breed in and the bad
reed out. This, however, may not
iWays be, obtained by one cross; the
fOgeny may in itself show perfection
E1t to insure permanency it must be
Ioliowed up and the blood purified
4lore and more, The power to trans
hit to offspring the quality of the par
i atdepends principally upon purity OF
Hood or one kind of blood, and this is
NM which determines more than any
SSMthg else, the real value of the breed
tlgsAnimal, Gts prepotency or power to
iansmit to off spring like good quail
esq All pure blooded or pedigreed
s1tmals have been obtained to start
bVith by judicious inbreeding, this by
tlselecting and mating only the best OF
t,those possessing the desirable charac-
eriBtics of the family, and the breed is
established when there is uni.
until this is obtained, to call
abreed, is only misnomer. for we
md fayknow of breed by this uniform
~ character.
'sYss.A5Short Horn calf may be white
ans0r red, for these colors have OBJ,
.s2inad:as far back as the breed has
zen known, but no amount of expla-
tionscould satisfy an expert that a
sCkOTs brindle or line backed was a
m ti0pded Short Horn; that a spot.
6nfMal was a Devon, red and
NteWAs a Polled Angus, or that any
Ang less than white faced was a
Bretord. Certain characteristics al
Il .tfayGRo with the full blood of any
mdsand the continued breeding to-
cptharof animals of the same blood
). .i.ndthe same characteristics gives
5 SiEhemsthe prepotency or power to trans
mitth makes the full blood desirable
ofoEs er0ssing on stock not having
o,eqakl1y desirable qualities: for this
reason among stockmen the bull is con
sidsged one half the herd. The foolish
praetice prevalent among farmers OF
nsinKbulls of miscellaneous breeding
calnntabe too warmly deprecated. Sc
many farmers persist in the notion that
theyWant a good looking animal and
caEeshnt little about it's blood.
ACROSS bred animal is often in itself
bettertha the parent on either side
forinstance, the progeny from the pure
bred Short Horn bull and the native
COW may and should get shape and
quality from its sire, while the vitality
and instinct of the dam may give ii
activity, hardihood and powers Of as
Bimilati0n so as to render it more prof.
itableathan either ancestor for other
than breeding purposes, while it would
be but little better than scrub fo1
4braeding purposes, the tendencies in
sdeture being to go backward rather
thangforward unless there be contin.
uoassinfusion of the good blood.
y This breeding back shows the i'm.
pOrtance of pedigree; it being apparent
that the animal should not only be good
nft6aN but all its ancestors for many
yenerAtions back.
EYerypart and quality can be i'm
proved dbyiudiciou breeding and hand
ing, soon the contrary by bad hand
Ing and bad breeding they will grad
rally be bred out so that the breeds are
Mly maintained by selecting the best
Indthe breeder who makes the most
tudicions selections for this purpose is
,haIsafee and better man to buy from
instinct OF brute reason is developed
,y5thenecessity of caring for them
elves, es,consequently the pampered ami
lal9shoWs less instructive qualities