PART I. BREEDING. 



INTRODUCTION. 



I AM well aware that there is no royal road that will 

 lead to the highest degree of success for all who may 

 attempt the task of becoming profitable breeders of 

 high class animals, whether of horses, cattle, sheep, 

 swine, poultry, dogs, or in fact any of the domesticated 

 animals. In fact it may be generally stated that the 

 failures will outnumber the successes as ten to one. On 

 looking over the field, however, we can see many man- 

 agers who are successful, and on careful inquiry it will 

 be found that nearly all of them have attained success 

 because they have acted on lines which are entirely in 

 accord with proven biological facts. It may be as- 

 serted that success in breeding will not be achieved by 

 any hap-hazard method, but by careful plans, laid out 

 after great deliberation, and according to a certain 

 standard of action which breeders have set up for their 

 guidance. I am aware that an occasional hap-hazard is 

 sometimes temporarily successful, and this may occur 

 apparently in spite of the violation of what many suc- 

 cessful men would call positively correct principles. 

 These facts show to some extent the great difficulties 

 with which the breeder has to contend; especially will 

 the difficulty appear very great if we bear in mind the 



