DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



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exaggerate the presumed ill effects of such periods of 

 fashionable aberrations as above described, for nearly 

 all of the vast numbers of animals that are annually 

 bred in all civilized countries must necessarily be 

 raised for practical purposes. This will always be the 

 underlying basis for the general breeder, no matter 

 how some breeders may succeed in specializing a cer- 

 tain number of animals, and this assertion holds good 

 in the case of all domestic animals. A horse that may 

 be considered a typical animal for general purposes is 

 seen in Fig. 3. 



Fig. 3. Hackney. 



