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Professor Eugene Davenport reaches the conchision 

 tliat "anyone who will take tlie trouble to study the pedi- 

 grees of famous families in almost any line of stock 

 breeding will lind that the foundation blood is most in- 

 tensely bred. Indeed, the practical breeder working with 

 material that is really of distinctive and peculiar merit 

 comes soon to the point at which close breeding is inev- 

 itable, and he must face the issue sooner or later if he 

 is to make au}^ real use of liis valuable creations. To 

 breed them out is but to dissipate their excellence, and 

 the only practical course is close breeding." 



