4 PRODUCT OF SELECT BREEDING 
To develop a fine type of livestock is as noteworthy an achievement as to complete a fine 
piece of engineering. The animal pictured oa has been produced only after careful 
selection and proper mating of ancestors. Success‘ul breeders pav rigid attention to the 
laws of inheritance. The study of genetics, 16 make more widespread a knowledge of 
these laws, is worthy of more prominence in our educational institutions. What would be 
the effect on livestock raising in the United States ‘if next year 1,000 persons began think- 
ing intelligently about animal breeding for every one person who thought about it this year? 
That would bring about a condition whereby combined human effort in studying and 
applying laws of he redity to livestock breeding would approximate the effort being devoted 
to mechanical progress.’’ (Fig. 2.) 
