New Walks in Old Ways 



"Baby Rambler," a low-growing, 

 bushy little shrub, producing its flower 

 clusters profusely enough, and making 

 beds that we agree are most attractive 

 on our lawns ; but leave them to them- 

 selves for a year or two, and you will 

 find them surreptitiously throwing out 

 long runners, and quietly reverting 

 back to the climbing originals. 



So with all our so-called improved 

 varieties of domestic animals. It is 

 only through the persistent application 

 of all the laws known to the science of 

 breeding, developed through genera- 

 tions of experience and experimenta- 

 tion, that we are able to maintain 

 them in the form we deem most de- 

 sirable for our use, or most pleasing 

 to our eye or taste. Free them from 

 this control, and they would soon 

 either perish from inability to cope 

 with natural conditions, or work rapid- 

 ly back to hardier types differing de- 

 cidedly from their present state. Na- 

 ture's idea of a bovine species suited 



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