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parents has predominating qualities, those predominating 

 qualities will appear in the oifspring. If the man is a firm, 

 set, unyielding man, and his wife is a submissive, gentle 

 woman, nine times out of ten, the man will impress his 

 qualities on the offspring. On the other hand, if the woman 

 is resolute, determined, and has her own way, she will 

 impress herself on the offspring. That is the result of 

 observation merely : I have not read any thing about it in 

 books. I put that proposition down squarely for you to 

 book against to-day. It is going to stand the test of time. 



As to the matter of pedigree, I believe something in it; 

 but I believe a great deal less in book pedigree than I do in 

 photograph pedigree. Show me the photographs of ten gen- 

 erations, and tell me what they have done, and I will tell 

 you what they are going to produce. It is the long produc- 

 tion of given qualities that is going to tell in the end. In 

 order to get an excellent mare, or an excellent horse to draw,, 

 you want to find a horse that inherits that quality. You. 

 will get a much better result from such an animal than from 

 one that has a mixture of trotting and drawing qualities.. 

 If you attempt to raise horses for speed, you are going to 

 make a loss: that is plain enough. But there are natural 

 qualities which are reproduced in larger degree than speed, 

 and those are the qualities that will bring money ; and, if you 

 produce them, you will not make a losing business of raising 

 stock. Those qualities are style, size, beauty, docility. 

 Horses possessing those qualities are what everybody wants. 

 Every professional man, every gentleman, every mechanic, 

 who uses horses, wants them. Very few want a horse for 

 speed merely. Everybody says, "Give us a ten hundred 

 horse, that looks noble, grand. Give us one that carries his 

 head up, arches his neck, and lets his tail flow out. Give us 

 one that has a glossy coat, a lean head, and clean limbs. 

 Let us have style. Let us have one with a good action. Let 

 us have one with a sweet disposition." Why, some horses 

 are not worth keeping, on account of their temper. I would 

 not have them. My wife said to me once, " Why don't you 

 sell that horse ? You are mad all the time." I was ; I 

 couldn't help it: and nobody could live with such a horse 

 near him without being mad all the time. I could do nothing 

 with him. He was good to travel and work, but he was a 



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