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the animal in its youth, and on that which was accumu- 

 lated by dam and sire and great-great-grandsire. But, 

 on the other hand, the city would be a poor place in 

 which to raise colts. 



The successful business men of our large towns were 

 nearly all country reared and descended from country 

 bred ancestry. They go to the city with a full head of 

 vitality it has taken generations to accumulate. The 

 artificial life dissipates vitality, it does not accumulate 

 it, although it may sometimes accumulate money. No 

 large city perpetuates its own number of inhabitants. 

 It would become depopulated were it not for recruits 

 from the country. The blooded fowls, or their eggs for 

 hatching, bought and sold and disseminated by millions 

 all over the world, would leave descendants more plenty 

 than blackberries, were it not for the fact that not only 

 are incubators and brooders used considerably, but both 

 sellers and buyers are prone to stive the highly prized 

 birds up in such close quarters, and subject them to so 

 many other unnatural conditions, that they peter out 

 after awhile. Trace the history of dozens of importa- 

 tions of choice poultry brought into your neighborhood, 

 good reader, within your remembrance. Ask what has 

 become of them. The answer will be, in a large propor- 

 tion, of cases, "they all ran out." 



