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ed with no sensible advantage; owing to the very same cause—the character and habits of the breeds being widely different, and the style of management in the district being unsuitable, or inferior to what the descendants of the former would require. The intrinsic worth, however, of such a fa- mous sort, in situations and with treatment befitting them, remains unimpeachable. Wherever, then, cross-coupling is at- tempted, care ought always to be taken to do it gradually, and to rear the progeny in a proper manner. When the matching is conducted progressively, and with due at- tention to the diversity of habit in the animals, and other corresponding circum- stances, it succeeds well; and by coupling more or less constantly afterwards with one or other of the sorts, a material alter- ation will speedily be induced.‘The chief art would seem to lie in not making ani- mals of breeds or characters widely difter- ent, intermix at first:‘The improvement should commence by coupling the home- stock with one which is already somewhat

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