BREEDING 2^ 



days; but put a heavy dragoon with his 

 baggage on the same gee, and let him 

 undertake a protracted march under a 

 tropical sun over rugged ground — bad 

 shoeing, and his leather boots worn 

 through — and the said gee will be resting 

 his bruised fetlocks, and the said dragoon 

 cursing the government that sent him a 

 bent-legged brute like this to ride. Ex- 

 perience and observation rather force me 

 to the belief that not only in breeding 

 horses, but also in breeding animals of all 

 kinds, it is better to have full size in the 

 sire, whilst a trifle under-size is permis- 

 sible in the dam. 



Without entering at length into the 

 saturation theory, which avows with some 

 evidence of truth that the influence of 

 a given sire on his progeny from a 

 given dam, is partially transmitted to the 

 second progeny of the same mare by a 



