

ON BREEDING AND REARING ANIMALS. 



Although the difference in the sexes, appears 

 to be more strongly marked in animals, than in 

 vegetables ; the laws of nature, as they regard 

 the result of their connection, are much the same 

 in both. 



On the subject of breeding, Sir John Sinclair 

 says, '* The art of imjDroved breeding consists in 

 " making a careful selection of males and fe- 

 " males, for the purpose of breeding stock 

 " with fewer defects, and with greater perfec- 

 " tions, than their parents, in which their mu- 

 " tual properties shall be continued, and their 

 " mutual faults corrected. 



" The objects of improved breeding, therefore 

 " are to obviate defects, and to acquire and per- 

 ** petuate desirable properties ; hence, wlien a 

 " race of animals have possessed in a great de- 

 " gree, through several generations, the proper- 

 " ties which it is our object to obtain, their 

 " progeny are said to be well bred, and their 

 ** stock may be relied on." 



" It was upon this principle of selection that 

 '* Bake well formed his celebrated stock of sheep, 



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