THE EARTH'S BOUNTY, 



the ancestry of an animal. An animal's pedi- 

 gree may be good or bad, according to the 

 worth or worthlessness of the ancestors in- 

 cluded in it. It may be complete or incom- 

 plete, according as it includes all or only a part 

 of the names of the individuals composing tHe 

 animal's ancestry back to the formation of the 

 breed. 



" The perfectly prepared pedigree of an 

 animal shows the foundation stock of the 

 breed that enters into his line of ancestry, and 

 then step by step exhibits the different links in 

 the chain of life, indicating to what extent the 

 foundation stock and their progeny re-enter 

 the pedigree, the closeness of interbreeding, 

 the out breeding, the use of unknown, doubt- 

 ful, or undesirable sires or dams; in fact, all 

 the blood-relationships of which the animal is 

 the result. 



: ' With the pedigree should be studied the 

 records, so far as obtainable, of the animals 

 listed in the pedigree. In actual investigation 

 of the ancestries of animals, it is almost and 



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