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AGRICULTURE. 



SYNOPSIS OF BREEDS OF POULTRY. 



(M. Lemoine.) 



Breeds. 



Andalusian 



Brahma (Hcfht) 



Cochin (buff) 



Creve Coeur 



Dorking (silver gray) 



(dark) 



Game 



Hamburgs (silver spangled)., 

 (golden pencilled) 



Houdan 



La Fleche 



Langshan 



Leghorn (brown) 



Minorca (black) 



Plymouth Rock 



Scotch Gray , , 



Wyandottes , 



— Q t« 



oz. 



24 



33 



27)4 



27}^ 



24 



20I4 



26 



27 



22 



281^ 



27^ 



29 



25 





oz. 



9^ 

 '7V^ 



6:^ 

 6^ 

 4^ 

 4^ 

 4^ 

 6% 

 6% 

 7^ 

 4% 



6M 



HEREDITY. 



By Prof. Thos. Shaw, of Minnesota Experiment Station. 



Heredity in breeding relates to transmission. It is 

 doubtless governed by fixed laws, but many of these are 

 as yet imperfectly understood. It may be defined as the 

 outcome of the operation of that law whereby properties 

 and qualities of like kind with those of the parents are 

 transmitted to the offspring. This transmission is cer- 

 tainly comprehensive in its character, since it relates to 

 structure, function and qualities, and indeed to every 

 feature of the organization. But in instances not a few 

 there are apparent exceptions to this law -of transmission. 

 These, however, are apparent rather than real. They 

 appear to us as exceptions because of the limitations of 

 our knowledge of this great question. These supposed 

 exceptions are doubtless the result of the predominant in- 

 fluence of other laws acting in opposition to the hereditary 

 tendency, and it is characterized as normal, abnormal, 

 and acquired, according to its nature. 



