HINTS OX DAIKYINO. 



descended from a family having the same peculiarity of 

 large flow lacking in richness. But if there is richness 

 on one side and abundance on the other, the coupling of 

 the two might reasonably be expected to result in im- 

 provement in the offspring, which might inherit both the 

 large flow and the rich quality. Bad points and qualities 

 are inheiited as well as good ones. Hence, the constant 

 aim and care must be to avoid developing what is objec- 

 tionable as well as to develop what is desired. It must 

 be constantly borne in mind that like begets like. All 

 the trouble attending inbreeding, crossing or grading 

 comes from not properly regarding this fact. Where 

 inbreeding is followed, the only disadvantage arises from 

 the fact that all the animals are likely to have the same 

 defects of form, quality and constitution. But where- 

 these are all right, the advantage is that inbreeding fixes 

 the features and qualities and secures the establishment 

 of them in a type or breed. But crossing or grading 

 animals having the same failing will prove just as disas- 

 trous as would inbreeding. But crossing may be done in 

 a way to develop good qualities, and these may afterward 

 be fixed by careful selection and inbreeding of offspring. 

 This subject of breeding is one of great importance, 

 and yet little understood. Many things pertaining to it 

 are yet to be settled, though great progress has been 

 made during the last few years, and public attention is 

 being drawn to it as it never was before. It will be 

 found that man can become master of the situation, and 

 may, by observing certain fundamental conditions and 

 varying only the details, breed domestic animals of 



