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weight in a minimum amount of time has been brought about 

 coincident with the shape, make and characteristics of the 

 animals. This is scientific breeding of the most advanced 

 kind as we understand it today, and which has proved by re- 

 sults to be not only scientific but practical in the extreme. 



Stock breeding in the ordinary acceptation of the term 

 has been regarded as rough, coarse work, but let it not be over- 

 looked for an instant that the gentle hand of refinement has 

 marked the course of every stage of advancement until the 

 lean, angular, coarse looking cattle of the past have been 

 moulded into the exquisitely beautiful creatures of today. 



We have from childhood looked upon the pig as an almost 



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