The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-07-14

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IKE the offspring VIII tend TO be Ike
these good parents But here the law
Of variation COMES Ia again, causing
some of the offspring 70 be better aud
some poorer than the parents. In this
case. however. The poorer animals VIII
b. considerably better than the poor
ones ~ the preceding generation aud
the good ones Will be better than the
best Of the previous year Again the
poorer animals are discarded and the
better ones saved In this way the
standard az excellence is improved
from year a. year
To accomplish much. Improvement
By selection must be guided by man
wbo has q definite Ideal 10 mind. lie
must know exactly the Kind OF AMI
NAL be Is working for aud should Sc
lect his breeding stock with this type
In mind IN this way Is developed
strain ~ animals that are very
much alike IN alt their characteristics
Though they still tend 20 vary, these
variations are not 50 marked as for
mery. aud more uniform lot Of ami
mails results This uniformity is due
IL large part 10 the fact that each
parent has behind Il long llnc OF an
cestors Of similar type An animal
does not get all It's characteristics
from Us parents Part 81 them come
from the grandparents part from the
great grandparents and part from more
remote ancestors Clearly, then, the
more nearly an these ancestors resem
bic a certain Fixed type the more uni.
form the offspring win be- II Is large
~ hy continued sclectioB that all the
Improved breeds Of domestic animals
have been developed II Is this ability
20 produce uniformly good offspring
that makes pure hreds SO much more
valuable than animals Of common
breeding
The tendency 81 an animal 70 resem
be some ~ its remote ancestors more
closely than It's immediate parents Is
allied reyerslon or atavism. Thus. oc-
,axionally a calf of hornless breed
will show horns. or pig 81 certain
breed viii show color that Is not
found IN the breed today Reversion
rannnt he guarded against The best
that can he done il 20 prevent the use
Of reverted animals as breeders
Mutations
Any race 81 living things, whether Y
he animals or plants. will occasionally
produce mutation or. as Il Is CON.
monly called. q sport" This Is an In
divldual differing 10 a marked extent
from the general type Of the race OF
brr~d " ii II q true sport II VIII
produce its own characteristics 10 its
offspring aud thus new strain OF
breed il developed
This neW strai u distinctly differ
ent frvm the type from which Il came
and its offspring show little tendency
10 revert 20 ,hat type The hornles'
breeds 81 cattle were Developed from
spor,s The nectsrine IS 8 sport from
che peach. and the weeping willow Is
sport from the ordinary willow
sports. whcn o. The right Kind, are OF
great saiue 10 originating uew types
aud breeds. bot they are seldom OF
any particular vaiue TO the ordinary
breeder
Latent Character
point that Is ~ much value II
praetit Al breeding operations Is The
fact TIA, the characters which an ant
MAJ possesses are not always devei
opsd such characters arr called la
trnt whnc the ones thai arr developed
are called dominant Characters which
are latent Ia epe animal uisy becotns
domlnam Ia bis offspring Thus the
mnking qualities " d COW are trans
United more surety through Der bal'
calves than through Der daughters
The raasing charcierissic D. ot course,
istcni Id The huli. but 4 teconea dom
insnt b. bis helfer calves and 10 .
greater desree ihau iu The original
rows heifer calves
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