Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-02-02

not inconsistent TO cOnCeue UTdC'lcdi
transmitting power to old Henry Clay
that in its intensity bore thoroughbred
character. In contributing to the dams
of Electioneer the Clay line helped to
produce what large majority of breed
ers would pronounce the greatest sub
family connected with the Abdallah male
line of descent. As trotting leaven
Clay blood has long been recognized rs
so potent an element that we can hardly
account consistently for it without con
ceding to Henry Clay an enforcing
power of a degree that meets the true
if not the technical sense of the word
thoroughbred.
~Mr. Huntington is of that school
which regards nothing AS accomplished
permanently until a type is formed. He
would not be satisfied as breeder to at
tempt to breed performer until he had
established stud of type that would,
when interbred among its own members,
uniformly produce performers. The
chance cross that might produce per-
former, though he be as brilliant as Di-
rectum, would not satisfy his ambition
as a breeder because he would feel no
certainty that he could repeat it. A
man who makes sum of money in
legitimate business that he has built up
on evidence of its usefulness to mankind
has something of greater value than the
money he has made. because he can con-
tinue to make other like sums with
practical certainty. a man who drew
in lottery a sum equal to that made by
the other would have no such permanent
advantage. Having to his satisfaction
discovered that Henry Clay was the en-
bodiment of the strongest trotting pro-
clivities that the world has seen up to
this day; that by reason of having been
created by the bringing together of so
many lines partaking of the characters
tics of an original fixed type he was
himself practically thoroughbred in those
characteristics, he determined to multi
ply his blood in such way that the
type would be retained and the fiXity of
a breed established.
scientific students of the law of
heredity long since discovered that where
animals of mixed breeds are crossed
prOmscuously together. there is con-
slant struggle of nature to revert back
to fixed type, and generally that type
which is common to the ancestry of most
of the animals IN the pedigree of the
youngstcr produced; but as blood in
fluences do not always accord with the
arthmetical ratio of the blood itself, that
to revert to a previous type has been
seized upon by breeders as a means of
establishing breeds through inbreeding
of the blood of some one or more ami
mails possessing the type it is desired to
fix upon the breed Colling commenced
with the bull Hubbuck and he and his
successors established and perfected the
Shorthorn breed of cattle, which con-
tinues to breed true to the established
type when kept pure and which when
crossed struggles to assert its type.
"rhe true theory of inbreeding is little
understood by the superficial breeder.
An animal may possess the blood of a
given ancestor without possessing the
least appreciate evidence of it in his
tendencies or traits, in fact may be
the counterpart of some other ancestor
or bear the stamp of group of ances-
tors.
"Inbreeding by means of such animals
will not tend to fix the type of the de-
sired ancestor on his descendants. 1t is
not alone that separate lines from a com
mon source should be reunited, but those
separate lines must each possess the
tendencies typitied in the common
source. That being the case, each will
help and support the others in natures
struggle to cast back to type. When
there is strength enough in this united
effort it prevails not only in reproducing
the tyre sought, but it eradicates con-
tending influences and makes prepotent
individual or one that is practically
thoroughbred in type.
SIN reproducing animal nature blood
influences have their afiinities and repel-
lants, just as we find the same in the
chemistry of material nature. If we
bring in contact certain chemical ee-
ments that have a strong affinity for
each other, it is well known that, though
each be locked up in combination with
other elements, their mutual attraction
is such that they will dissolve those con-
nections and unite with each other in a
new combination. In like manner con-
genial blood elements brought newly in
contact will relinquish former affiliations
to blend with each other in more power
full affinity. In harmonious union is
strength and such combinations or hicks
quickly dominate the blood influences
and Danish opposing tendencies, AS in
the tluXiOn of metals the cohesive parti-
Giles assimilate and throw off the Stag.