ihe a STOCK; 4.7

m de. carefully select your best-shaped males and females,

hout tor procreation, observing all the needful rules, you

1€ lat. may breed from your own stock only, with increas-

warm ing success, to the end of the chapter.‘lhe reason

must why. the cattle of persons breeding from their own

ch an stock alone, have, in process of time, degenerated©

rest in size and shape, running away to legs, and becom-

mher ing spiry, has subsisted in their ignorance and inat-:

efect tention merely; having a male or a female at hand,|

ereh although of the most beggarly form, such have been y

der), made use of for breeding, rather than incur the q

sik trouble of sending to the adjoining parish, or farm, ft

ring fora proper cross.

- The term blood has been transplanted from the t

i horse-course to the grazing-ground; and with no i

n sort of impropriety, since it means natural and i

bs inherent qualities in a species, exhibited in certain;

: external and visible signs; it can, however, never H

) be of that peculiar use in this, as in the former case, i

H because equality of shape and size levels pretty LI

3 nearly, in value, all the varieties of a species of eat- 4

ue able stock; but no horse, whatever may be his il shape, can be fit for the purposes of the turf, unless 5

me his blood be pure and unmixed.|

als, In every species, however pure the blood, or re- i

ality gular the characteristics, nature, ever delighting in.

hus; variety, has. established this original diversity of;

1 ob: form.—Some individuals will run more-to length

lose and depth, others to shortness and rotundity: these

id 10, modes of form, are, besides, the distinguishing

e has marks of entire species. Such are the breeder’s

roved-‘1 means of improvement, the tools with which he

and must work. By mixing the extremes of long and

cates short

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