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The successful breeder lias a problem with numerous ele- 

 ments before him. 



In conclusion, let me add in regard to cross bred animals or 

 grades, — the first cross is likely to produce animals of great 

 excellence. But do not be misled. If you then pair or breed 

 these together you go ofif into the tangled maze of intermingled 

 blood the combinations of which you cannot certainly forecast. 

 The defects of one breed or the incongruities of both are per- 

 petually breaking out. 



It is true that close breeding and in-and-in breeding have 

 been the method of perpetuating and intensifying the quali- 

 ties of our improved breeds, and prove successful with estab- 

 lished blood. But between grades themselves experience 

 shows it should be scrupulously avoided. 



Procure another thor-oughbred sire by purchase or exchange 

 whose excellencies shall correct and over balance defects 

 existing in spite of your care with previous coupling. So pro- 

 ceed studying your females and selecting the bull so far as con- 

 stantly to approach nearer the fixed model set up for yourself. 



Weed out and discard for breeding uses those that fail to 

 possess the desired points, and preserve with greatest care 

 the true breeders of the herd. 



Thus we find that the breeding of dairy stock include 



1st. A man with persistence of purpose and judgment to 

 know when he is going right and when wrong. 



i^d. A dairy herd so selected as to be possessed of a sim- 

 ilarity of desirable characteristics with those sought by the 

 breeder. 



3d. The use of a prepotent sire with ancestry that all pos- 

 sessed the characteristics and conformation it is desired to re- 

 produce. 



4th. 



What's worth good breeding 

 Is worth good feeding. 



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