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mencement, the number of males in a litter has 

 materially increased. Again, I find if a young, 

 vigorous dog is bred to a similar bitch, females 

 will predominate in the offspring, whereas, if 

 the same bitch is bred to a much older dog, an 

 excess of males will generally occur. Occa- 

 sionally some dogs will be met with that no 

 matter what mated with, will produce largely 

 males, and some the opposite of this will nearly 

 always produce females, and some bitches, no 

 matter how bred, do likewise, but these are ex- 

 ceptions, and not the rule. A kennel man need 

 never worry about sex, inasmuch as good dogs 

 of either gender will always be in demand. 



The law of Selection must be carefully at- 

 tended to to insure the bes-t results. Choose 

 your best and most typical bitches for breeding, 

 especially those that approximate rather to the 

 bull type and are rather long in body and not 

 too narrow in their hind quarters. I do not care 

 if the dam has a somewhat longer tail than the 

 dog, my experience has been that a bitch pos- 

 sessing a tight screw tail did not do quite as well 

 in whelping as one having one a little longer. 

 Do not consider this as suggesting that the tail is 

 a matter of secondary importance, by no means, 

 it is of primal import, and too much attention 

 can never be given to the production of this 

 distinguishing mark of the dog. A Boston 



