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facts in the case. I imbibed the doctrine that 

 the male should be smaller than the female 

 from my early reading upon the subject, and 

 began writing from the same standpoint; but 

 very early in my career as a writer upon stock- 

 breeding my esteemed friend, the late Judge 

 T. C. Jones, of Ohio, from whom I have taken 

 many valuable lessons, called my attention to 

 the manifest unsoundness of this theory, and 

 said that he was fully convinced that the teach- 

 ing of the books upon- this subject was all 

 wrong, and that, while he did not advocate 

 great disparity in the size of parents, he was 

 satisfied that when there was a difference it 

 should be the reverse of what the books 

 taught that the male should, as a rule, be 

 larger than the female. It was a startling 

 proposition to me, but it set me to thinking 

 and watching the subject closely ; and now, 

 looking back over more than a quarter of a 

 century of experience, I say emphatically that 

 Nature's plan, as exemplified in all mammalia, 

 is that the male parent should be the larger of 

 the two. In all animals, from the horse down 

 to the hog, wild as well as tame, the male, as a 

 rule, is larger than the female of the same 

 breed. No observant man can have failed to 

 notice this. What pure breed or race of ani- 

 mals, in any country, can be named as an ex- 

 ception to this rule? And is this not also true 



