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Wild Hog, when in their native state; and the Dog and the Wolf, the Dog and the Fox, 
and the Hare and the Rabbit, even when domesticated. At other times the antipathy is 
partially subdued in a few instances out of many, by association, as in the rare cases of 
marriages between a white person anda negro. And here every one of us must have 
been witness of the almost universal natural feeling of abhorrence of the community 
disgraced by such an outrage; often followed by an outbreak. That this is the effect of 
the natural feeling we have described, we rely upon Professor Samuel G. Morton, who 
tells us that it is not only proverbial among all Huropean nations, but is evinced by 
Africans, in their own country, and upon Duncan, who, in his travels in Western Africa, 
relates several instances of the negresses running away in apparent fright and disgust at 
the sight of a white man. At other times this natural abhorrence is overcome either by 
domestication alone, or by domestication aided by the artifices of man, as in the case with 
the Jackass and the Mare. 
In like manner mature makes known her non-conformity to this mixture in various ways. 
Sometimes the issue is absolutely sterile. At others the product is so mal-conformed 
that it cannot survive the period of lactation, as was the case with both the foals of Mr. 
Kilby’s Mule. Now the progeny is capable of being continued but only by new drafts 
or supplies from the pure breeds from which it sprung; as was the issue of the Sheep and 
the Goat, mentioned by Bellchambers. Then the progeny multiply among themselves for 
two or three generations only; and even during that time show no constancy of character, 
as mentioned by Van Amringe, in Nat. Hist. of Man, (p. 429,) who says: ‘We have 
devoted much attention to this subject, have examined a number of mulatto families, and 
are satisfied that the children seldom exhibit the medium color of their parents.” And, ina 
from this same heifer several calves, and then, that the experiment might be perfect, I put one of them to the Buffalo Bull, 
and she brought me a Bull Calf, which I raised to bea very fine, large animal—perhaps the only one to be met with in the world, 
of this blood, viz: a { i—fs of common blood. 
“ After making these experiments I have left them to propagate their blood themselves, so that I have only had a few 
half-breeds and they always prove the same even by a Buffalo Bull.” 
Upon this statement of Mr. Wickliffe’s we crave attention to the following comments: 
Ist. That his herd, which now numbers ten or twelve, commenced thirty years ago, with two pure female Buffaloes; yet 
he endeavored, as much as he could, to cross them with his common cattle. 
2d. He found the tame or common Bull wnwilling to copulate with the female Buffalo. 
3d. One half-breed heifer produced a Bull Calf but he was castrated and killed, and so ended that experiment. 
4th. From the same heifer he bred several Calves, one of which was put to a Buffalo Bull, which produced a Bull Calf which 
was raised, and here this experiment ended. It stands thus: 
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Buffalo Bull ot 
and A Female half breed ) By 
Common Cow. and A Bull Calf. 
( A Buffalo Bull. J 
Now the reader will remark that No. 1, being a cross of two species the product was No. 2, a hybrid half-breed. But this 
hybrid half-breed was not coupled with another of the same grade, but was bred towards one of the original stock or parents, 
viz: a Buffalo Bull. 
Mr. Wickliffe, therefore, very properly comes to the following conclusions, viz: that his experiments were not satisfactory 
evidence that a half Buffalo will produce again; but only that a half-breed heifer will be productive from breeding towards 
either original race. 
