IN-AND-IN BREEDING. 



brother and sister were bred together twice in succes- 

 sion: 



I Sillifant (120) 



(Hundred Guinea (56) 4 

 Curley (92) 

 ; - 

 ( Sillifant (120) 

 ^ U ,_ WOT , Splendid (415) 



Wales (105) 



Hundred Guinea (56) 

 Duchess (146) 



The high-bred cow, Eveleen 5th (466), belonging 

 to the Michigan State Agricultural College, is a reg- 

 ular breeder, a good milker, and remarkable for her 

 feeding qualities and sound constitution. 



Her dam traces to Forester thirty times, to Sillifant 

 ten times, to Hundred Guinea seven times, and to Quart- 

 ly's Prince of Wales three times, in eight generations. 



Her sire, within the same limits, traces to Forester 

 twenty-one times, to Sillifant twenty times, to Hun- 

 dred Guinea thirteen times, and to Quartly's Prince 

 of Wales five times. 



/'In-and-in breeding has not been practised to the 

 same extent with horses as with other farm -stock, 

 yet many of the most noted horses on record have 

 been bred from close relationships. * 



Stonehenge says : " When any new breed of ani- 

 mals is first introduced into this country, in-and-in 

 breeding can scarcely be avoided ; and hence, when 

 first the value of the Arab was generally recognized, 

 the breeder of the race-horse of those days could not 

 well avoid having recourse to the plan. Thus we 

 find, in the early pages of the stud-book, constant in- 

 stances of very close breeding, often carried to such 

 an extent as to become incestuous." And he adds, 



