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the following inscription : t Sacred to the memory of 

 Eichard Worster, who died May 11, 1856, aged seven- 

 ty-three years. Also to the memory of twenty-two 

 sons and five daughters. . . . 



" The administrators of the estate of Heber C. 

 Kimball, late Brigham Young's first counselor, filed 

 in 1869, at Salt Lake City, a return of distributive 

 shares, subject to the revenue tax, showing forty-one 

 children thirty sons and eleven daughters." ' 



A case is reported of a bull, eighteen months old, 

 that got the first season ten heifers and two bulls. 9 



Another case is reported of a boar that "begat 

 about seventy per cent, of males." And of another 

 on the same farm that " got but three males out of 

 twenty-seven pigs." ' 



Mr. Elaine says : " Some dogs, some stallions, and 

 some bulls, are remarked for getting a greater number 

 of males than females ; while others are the parents 

 of more females than males." 4 



There are cases which seem to indicate that certain 

 families may have a tendency to produce more of one 

 sex than the other. 



Sir Anthony Carlisle says, " I am intimate with a 

 family in which the father and mother had only two 

 children, a son and a daughter, who each married into 

 families not related to either party, and have had 

 fifteen daughters without one son, viz., eight by the 

 son and seven by the daughter." e 



1 Watford's " Insurance Cyclopaedia," vol. iii., p. 167. 

 a Country Gentleman, March, 1870, p. 201. 



3 National Live-Stock Journal, 1877, p. 101. 



4 Walker on " Intermarriage," p. 229. 6 Ibid., p. 229. 



