126 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Professor has shown us to-day that the young of animals 

 can be so acted upon in the uterus, by proper food and exercise, 

 that they can be produced with half the pain tliat would other- 

 wise attend their birth, and I apprehend that the same thing is 

 true of the cliild in the womb of its mother. Now, sir, if that 

 knowledge can be conveyed to women and to fathers l)y a proper 

 course of instruction in the principles of breeding, it seems to 

 me there is no more useful information that can be given to us, 

 either as farmers or citizens. However much I may agree with 

 the doctor in what he has said in reference to the sentimental 

 feelings between the sexes, I maintain that every married woman 

 in the community should understand the principles of breeding, 

 and learn how to produce, with as little pain as possible, living 

 children, that shall grow up healthy men and women. 



Mr. BuowN, of Framingham. The question, as I understand 

 it is this : Can I take a Jersey bull, which I can buy for a small 

 price, and put him to my scrub cow, and from a series of con- 

 ceptions can I get a Jersey calf? That is the point. 



The President. You hear the question. For one, I don't 

 know how long Mr. Brown expects to live. (Laughter.) 



Mr. Davis. I thank Mr. Brown for recurring to my question. 

 It is a practical one. I do not care to go into the matter, but I 

 think the question of Mr. Brown was not put by way of a jok^. 

 What most of us, perhaps, want to know is this. Here is an 

 animal presented for sale or for premium. It has been bred to 

 the fifth generation, and there is not a man in this hall who can 

 see the difference between a yearling, after the third generation, 

 and what we acknowledge to be a pure Jersey heifer. In nine 

 cases out of ten, we cannot see it in the third generation, and 

 certainly no man can see it when it is the fifteenth or sixteenth 

 generation. I never have found anybody who could. Now, you 

 bring it down to thirty-one thirty-seconds or sixty-tlu-ec sixty- 

 fourths, and what does the difference amount to ? It seems to 

 me this is a question of practical importance. It is a question 

 of importance to every one of us who attends our cattle shows ; 

 it is a question of importance to us in our dealings as farmers, 

 whether we should consider that stock, for all practical purposes, 

 as pure blood. 



I agree with wliat the Chairman said with regard to the 

 Anglo-Saxon race and its admixtures, but, unfortunately, it is 



