The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-05-30
BrsedInr Tdaal Trns.

Is evidently to be found in lack OF
familiarity with the laws of breeding
as set down by scientists who have
studied the matter properly. We are
leo to make the above remarks by see-
ing such statements as the following;
II you want to breed good hogs Of
ideal type then pick a big, slabsided
Tow and breed her to a short. stub
and-twist boar" Anon: IF your sows
are plainly deficient in one respect 20
ouI ana md q, boar that Is abnormally
sooo In the point where the SOW is de-
nclent and he will counterfeit the bad
iault or the SOW" That means that
no wiz Deget pigs that are unlike him
SCI ana at the same time unlike the
SOW or In other words prove to be
1ne sire or pigs that are a sort of COM
pioMlse oetWeen the two abnormal
types OF the sire and dam. Now this
- utter foolishness. Like produces
IKE In as much as nature through the
law OF heredity transmits to progeny
the type and characteristics of the par-
ent which have become fixed charac-
.ers OF the parents family. This hered-
Ivy Is possessed equally by the sire
ana dam If each has been as lone bred
IN line hence the mating of the two
uut blends too similar tendencies and
the product is but a repetition Of the
characters OF the two or a composite
u both. The big, slabsided sow re-
Ierred TO is no more a perfect ideal of
Wnat a hog should be in appearance
tnan is the short, stub-and-twist boar.
w pad factors Joined do not make
a third good quantity. The bad
SNAPPED SOW and the bad shaped boar
VIII impress upon the rogen when
mated the character of that parent
winch is bred with most prepotence.
IL may be that the boar is more pre-
potent then the SOW in which case the
progeny would take most after him
ana SO De short and of the stub and
twist character, or if the SOW was most
prepotent the pigs would take after
her peculiarfties. There would at least
De no certainty that the blending of the
TWO different types would effect the
creation or a third entity of superior
y to that of either SOW or boar.
his being the case what is the good
OF trying such experiments? Given
the fact that there is an ideal hog.
ana each breeder has his ideas as to
IDEAL, the way to perpetuate that ideal
or TO build up towards its creation
and permanence is not to mix two diff
terent types hoping to establish a. third
better one but to select an ideal type
as a pattern then mate sows and boars
tnat nave each the most perfect de-
Velopment of the various points en-
ter1ng into the formation OF that given
type. The sow and. boar should be OF
the same type; both should be as per-
Iect as possible in every point of the
type but neither should be abnormal
IN any respect, for abnormalities are
apt to be sports of nature, hence not
transm1ss1ble, while known family
characteristics, fixed in the family by
long breeding in the same line. will
repeat themselves in the progeny so
o as they are kept pure and un-
tainted. Taking what has been said
into consideration it Is then seen that
In seeking out a boar to counterfeit
the bad type and characteristics OF
home sows the boar chosen should be
OF as perfect shape as possible with
a pedigree behind that shape which
promises that the said shape is not
accidental but fixed and likely to be
prepotently transmitted to his pro-
geny. Such a boar should be bred to
sows that are as like him as possible
II his type is the ideal one Of the
breeder. II the sows do not suit the
breeder then it is better to get rid of
them than to damage the breeding ef-
fects and values of the ideal boar by
insulting him with such mates. We
assert boldly that if it be necessary
to blend two different types of any ami
mails every breeding season to get a
third and more desirable one the
breeding operations will perpetuate a
tribe of animals lacking prepotency
and fixed type.
In the home garden -four principal
things are to be considered, namely:
% A sufficient supply of fruits and
vegetables of the finest quality; CD
Each crop to extend over as much
of the season as possible, with a we'll
planned succession; (3) Ease and
~cheapness of cultivation, and manur
ing; (4) The retention of the fertility
of the land for future years A gar
den should not be made into beds,
which was the old-style method. That
entailed labor by hand and came over
the Atlantic from Europe. In France
and other congested countries hand
labor in the garden is the proper
thin0 haVf In fhn TInifnA Cfo%na ~ fo