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Horses are bred not for quality of meat, not for texture 

 of wool, but for the work they can do, for the speed they 

 can make in running, for their shape, their color, and their 

 general good looks. 



But all this is about modern changes in plants and animals. 

 It is an account of forced evolution, as it were. It shows 

 what takes place when man uses the laws of inheritance in this 



JERSEY Cow, FIGGIS 76106 



Property of C. I. Hood & Company, Lowell, Massachusetts. Champion and Grand 



Champion, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. Made 547 pounds 6 ounces of butter in 



seven and a half months. Such a cow is worth perhaps a dozen of the ordinary kind 



that make 125 pounds in a year 



direction or that, as he wishes to get something different in the 

 next generation, and in the next, for indefinite periods of time. 

 As we know, the whole era of this modern experiment lies 

 within the memory of the human race. There were, however, 

 other eras and generations unnumbered, in ages before man 

 began his reckoning, when evolution made the same resistless 

 headway, yet moved at slower pace and without the aid of man. 

 The horse best illustrates this prehistoric, slower evolution. 



