AMERICA! ROADSTERS 



AND 



TROTTING HORSES. 



CHAPTEE I. 



THE BREEDING PROBLEM. 



LAWS or HEREDITY SELECTION CROSS-BREEDING AND IN-BREEDING 



INFLUENCE OP DEVELOPMENT. 



Stockbreeding is simply reproduction — ^the advancement of do- 

 mestic animals in the scale of valuable qualities — bringing the same 

 forth in increased numbers and in increased excellence, and thus 

 making the same more serviceable to the human race in general, and 

 more remunerative to the producer in particular. This can only be 

 done by the exercise of that wisdom and intelligent selection of 

 methods which will enable the breeder to avoid the errors, if any, 

 in previous efforts, and to combine, renew and increase the excellen- 

 cies of that which preceded, in the animals which ai'e to be produced 

 and employed in the furtherance of the business of reproduction. 

 Development and progressive advancement constitute the law of 

 intelligent efforts in the management of the animal creation, which is 

 subject to man, the superior. 



The first great principle involved is that of acquirement and trans- 

 mission. To apply this principle successfully in the production and 

 improvement of the breed or qualities of domestic aiiimals involves a 

 knowledge and close observation of the laws of evolution and 

 HEREDITY, or the rules which govern in the acquirement of certain 



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